Blue Kangaroo Paws: Aesthetic and Ecological Harmony

Blue Harmony: Plant Hybrids and Their Impact on Wildlife overview

Plant hybrids like the blue kangaroo paw featured at Perth's COMO The Treasury challenge traditional aesthetics while offering sustainable benefits for wildlife and maintenance.

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• The blue 'masquerade' kangaroo paw festive floral installation recently turned heads at Perth's COMO The Treasury.
• We speak to Digby Growns, Kings Park's Senior Plant Breeder who has lead research into plant science developments and released over 50 new varieties of Australian flora and fauna.
• Landscape artist Sylvia Crowe thought the more intense, synthetic colours – like blue, which is hardly found in nature – threw off the ‘subtle harmony of the wild plant’ (Garden Design, 1958).
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau even called hybrids ‘nature disfigured by man’ (La Botanique, 1805).
• However, by being more low-maintenance and disease-tolerant, plant hybrids reduce the impact of use of water, chemical-based pest control and fertiliser, while increasing habitat and food sources for wildlife.
• Growns speaks about how his work aims to unite science and aesthetics, his response to common criticisms, his horticultural inspiration and his Western Australian pride of place.
• See the Festive Floral Spectacle of 200 blue kangaroo paws for yourself at COMO The Treasury, up from November 28th 2022 to January 2nd 2023.
• Digby Growns will be participating in several festive events at COMO The Treasury.
• He is hosting a morning tea at the Postal Hall on December 17th 2022, from 10.00am to 11.45am.
• He will also be in conversation with Rebecca Const at The Mark on December 14th 2022, from 5.00pm to 7.00pm.

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