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Climate-hardy seedlings

The twice-flowering Dam Red is suited as a garden feature or screening plant. Picture: Supplied.
Sam James

DECORATIVE shrubs, trees and ground cover propagated, grafted and grown in Nyah have been designed to withstand harsh Mallee conditions. The centrepiece of the Calder Nurseries Australia collection is the Dam Red, or callistemon vemanalis, a chance hybrid of two bottlebrush varieties. Over the last 10 years, permaculturist Russell Calder has watched the original Dam […]

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