Canberra Bells help ring in centenary

By Ian Warden
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:27pm, first published January 11 2013 - 3:00am

Those of us who already have Canberra's dashing centenary shrub the correa ''Canberra Bells'' in our gardens and on our patios are noticing as we talk to it (imitating the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, who is known to talk to his estates' rhododendrons) that it has flower buds already. It has begun counting the sleeps to autumn when it becomes its most floriferous. It is the perfect thing with which to do a little green participating in the centenary and it will be in showy flower (bell-shaped flowers of red and cream) by the Canberra Day weekend (embracing March 12) when centenary sentiments will be especially feverish. It is on sale now in discerning Canberra nurseries.

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