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Fan-tastic

If you’re looking to create colourful cottage garden displays for many months of the year as well as habitat for interesting insect pollinators, look no further than our native Scaevola or fan-flowers.

This versatile group of groundcovers and shrubs gets its common name from the one-sided, fanlike arrangement of the petals. (The generic name Scaevola comes from the Latin for “left-handed”.)

Perhaps best known for their rich purple flowers, with various shades of pink

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