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Landscape Kangaroo paws - Velvet Kangaroo PawsAnigozanthos flavidus hybrid 'Gold Velvet' PBR & Anigozanthos flavidus hybrid 'Regal Velvet' PBRBy Nathan Dutschke Gold Velvet and Regal Velvet are new mid sized hybrid Kangaroo Paws which will bring back your confidence in using Kangaroo Paws in the landscape. These are the best landscape Kangaroo Paw varieties and some of the toughest too. Gold Velvet has been specifically bred with landscapers, landscape architects and designers in mind. With its desirable mid sized height and vibrant flowers Gold Velvet is extremely tough and will handle general landscape conditions and is great for low maintenance gardens. It is very drought tolerant and has better frost tolerance than other Kangaroo Paws. Gold Velvet is characterized by its outstanding clean and dense foliage, with magnificent bright yellow flowers which will reach a height of 1 metre, whilst its foliage gets 50 to 70 cm tall. Gold Velvet is an Anigozanthos flavidus hybrid, the flavidus species is widely known for its longevity in cultivation and it is not short lived like other species of Kangaroo Paw. Gold Velvet is an exceptionally vigorous, hardy and disease free species, being highly resistant to the dreaded Ink spot disease which affects many other varieties of Kangaroo Paw making them very short lived in the garden or landscape. Gold Velvet gives you a wonderful long lived, very hardy and showy Kangaroo Paw which can be mass planted, used in planter boxes, feature pots and as a flowering garden specimen. The beauty of Regal Velvet is that it has clean and very dense growing foliage, making it an attractive plant all year round even when not in flower. Regal Velvet is a mid sized Kangaroo Paw with attractive pale red and green flowers to 1.5m which appear in spring and early summer. These high nectar producing flowers attract honey eating birds into the garden. Regal Velvet is frost hardy, and will thrive in a full sun, well drained position or is ideal to plant into pots and tubs. Regal Velvet has proven to be a very hardy plant for use in landscapes as a mass planting or for feature planting. Gold Velvet and Regal Velvet are great for mass planting when strappy leaf plantings such as Lomandra Tanika are planted around the outside to hide the foliage in between flowering. For best results Gold Velvet and Regal Velvet prefer an open sunny position in a well draining soil. Irrigate regularly to establish the root system once planted and fertilise with a native fertilizer which is low in phosphorous in spring. Older flowers can be removed at the end of the flowering period being cut as close as possible to the base of the plant.
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