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Clarence shares some tips on how to grow one of Australia’s best loved plants, Sturt’s Desert Pea or Ngooringa. It’s notoriously hard to grow because it’s adapted to desert conditions ...
Good rainfall in South Australia is proving to be a benefit for more than just the winter crop season; Sturt's Desert Pea is flowering earlier than usual. It has been in full bloom on parts of ...
TAFE SA graduate and couture+love+madness designer Cristina Tridente, 21, of West Lakes, created the Sturt's Desert Pea gown and styled this captivating image as part of an application for further ...
Although Sturt's desert pea is the floral emblem for South Australia, it grows well in most areas of WA that have hot summers. It has to be one of the most spectacular flowers of the pea family.
Dr Kirby is a geneticist, a former lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Flinders University, where he devoted two decades to domesticating Sturt peas. Doing so has long been a goal of ...
"We were doing a small section of the highway before returning off, which is when we saw the first sturt desert pea," Linda told Yahoo News Australia this week. "We got really excited coming ...
It's only in the most arid of places that the desert pea blooms. Named after explorer Charles Sturt and South Australia's state emblem, the native wildflower has become an enduring symbol of ...