Craspedia
Plants
Craspedia, also known as Billy Buttons, are one of the most interesting flowers we grow!
Silvery grey grass-like foliage, with drumstick-like golden yellow 'flowers'. Lasts for seemingly ever dried. Very productive, when the plants get large and unruly just take a hedge trimmer to them reasonably low-ish and they'll put out another flush in time. Plants will need dividing every 2-3 years to maintain their vigour.
Plants may need to be cut down to fit into our boxes, but a cut back at this time of the season will help them bush up a bit more. We've found craspedia don't particularly love being potted, so always look a little rough, but once planted they will take off pretty fast (once it starts warming up in spring).
13cm Pot
See our Shipping page for more info (you can fit 5x 13cm pots per box, or they are similar to our 4 pack sizing for all other mix & match configurations).
Last Chance to Order
We will be taking a short break from our plant sales from the 29th of July for a week or two. This is likely your last chance to order any of the plants we currently have available.
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Plant Order Notes
Please note, we have a minimum plant order of $45 (approx. 5 plants) – you can mix & match any plants to meet the minimum.
Our plant boxes can fit up to 10 plants per box.
Plant orders are shipped on Mondays (& Tuesdays).
See our Shipping Page for more info.
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A Note on Hardening Off
All our plants are grown as we would grow & plant ourselves, which means we typically do not harden off (acclimatise) any of our smaller plants before planting.
Instead, after planting, we always cover all our plants with some sort of frost/mikroclima type cloth over wire low hoops. We leave this cover on till the plants are too big for the cover (usually a couple months later). We have found this extra layer of prolonged cover does away with any need to faff around hardening off plants, and the difference between any plants under these low hoops and those with zero transitionary cover is astonishing!
Prior to planting we also always give our plants a very good soak in water with a swig of seaweed solution and innoculate our plants with beneficial microorganisms. This helps alleviate stress, and start all our plants off with the best possible beginnings.
If however you don't / can't plant under some similar sort of cover, then we do definitely recommend you give your plants 5–14 days to slowly acclimatise to your less protected environment before planting out. We are reasonably mild compared to more southern growers, so easing the plants into colder climates is definitely advised.
Cloth: Polynet / Redpath
Hoops: 4mm Fencing Wire (which we cut up to fit our beds, with bolt cutters as fencing pliers are waaay too hard on our hands!)