LITTLE JESS™ Dianella caerulea ‘DCMP01’ PBR on The Bluedale Plants Online Show, Episode #2
This week’s episode of The Bluedale Plants Online Show is about Little Jess™ Dianella caerulea ‘DCMP01’ PBR
This week I want to feature a Dianella cultivar called Little Jess™
Now Dianellas have been a favourite native grass for many many years among many many people. In recent years there have been a lot of cultivars of Dianella that have come on to the market and many of them haven’t worked real well in the home garden but…
Little Jess is an absolute star. It’s a beautiful plant, it’s evergreen with beautiful lime green foliage. What’s great about little Jess is that it gets these beautiful purple star shaped flowers in spring and early summer that are held way above the foliage of the plant that make it a stunning feature.
How do you use Little Jess?
Little Jess again is a plant that can be used in a wide range of areas. If you’re an inland gardener and where you may get frost you may have to select a fairly frost free location, either that or protect it from frost in the middle of winter because it will get some frost burn on it.
On the coast its an absolute stunner. Little Jess can grow in heavier soils that are clay loam soils through to loamy soils. I always believe that Dianellas should have a better quality soil.
If you have a free draining sandy soil you may be better incorporating some compost or some organic matter in to the soil to help hold moisture.
One of the things with Dianella is – or though they’re very drought tolerant – if we get extreme heat they can suffer a little bit particularly in free draining soils that don’t hold any moisture at all.
As far as using it between Brisbane and Melbourne and Sydney, there is no real cultural difference between those areas, they’ll work perfectly in all aspects.
Planted close together they form a very informal hedge so along the edge of a garden border or on the edge of a pathway they do very well. Mass planted in the garden it also does well in a big block of foliage it looks fantastic.
It’s a very compact plant, it doesn’t spread very far so it’s very containable in your garden. You won’t have any problems with this plant getting out of control for you.
It’s one of those Dianellas – out of all the different cultivars – it’s probably the number one Dianella you can buy on the market.
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