Variegated Honesty

Honesty is a very valuable biennial which brings the spring garden alive. The most desirable forms have variegated leaves, and my favourite has white flowers. It's super stylish!

White Variegated Honesty

I actually bought three white flowering variegated plants from a mail order catalogue, before I realised they could be obtained quite easily from neighbouring gardens. But no meatter - now I have lots. I scatter the seed pods around when they've dried to imcrease my stock.

Purple Variegated Honesty

One day while visiting a small country nursery I spied some purple flowering variegated Honesty in the garden. The owner was kind enough to give me some seedlings, and I now have this variety in a number of garden areas as well.

White and Purple Variegated Honesty Flowers

The combination of purple flowers with the leaf variegation is very appealing. Honesty is a flowering plent which grows where it wants to - and always chooses the best locations.

Beautiful Spring Displays

In difficult garden areas (like the dry semi-shaded Hump) I am guaranteed of a beautiful spring garden display. I can easily get swathes of Honesty growing under the gum and pine trees - perfect for spring woodland walks.

Honesty

Recently in the Wattle Woods (in September 2010) I've spied a real treat - some Honesty plants where the flowers themselves have become speckled with purple and white. I'd like to thank the bees who made this pretty variation possible. I'm going to collect the seeds as soon as they're ready. I do hope (cross fingers) that they will carry the same coloured flowers.