Shara™ – It’s One Tough Lomandra Through Drought & Flood

Shara™ Lomandra fluviatilis ‘ABU7’ PBR continues to prove its toughness and versatility.

As you might already know our primary focus here at Ozbreed is breeding and research, aiming to produce the toughest and most tolerate plants on the market.

We carry out many trials and tests prior to plants becoming available and even continue to test their tolerances once they are released.

There are times however when mother nature produces a trial for our plants we had not anticipated, this was the case for our small in-ground production area of Shara™ Lomandra.

Our in-ground production area at Ozbreed is situated in a low-lying area of the farm. Over the past 7 months the Shara plants in this area have been subjected to the extremes that our Australian climate has to offer.

These Shara™ plants were put into production in September 2019, and over the first 4 months suffered through the harshness of drought, we received 0mm of rainfall in December 2019.

Even our dams we use for watering were struggling, one of which had completely dried up, and although we had permits to water the reality of Australian drought was very real for us at Ozbreed.