Thryptomene hyporhytis

A lovely medium shrub with small, green leaves and masses of small, pink to mauve, wax flowers. This shrub flowers in winter and spring and grows from 0.5m to 1m high by 1m wide. An attractive and hardy shrub that flowers best in sunny positions but tolerates light shade. It look great over a rocky wall, in rockeries, along creeklines or down slopes and bring lovely winter colour, attracting bees and insects. It grows in sandy and gravelly soils, sand over clay and clay loam and is drought and frost tolerant. Prune lightly after flowering to maintain a tidy shape if required. Origin – Northern Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.