Plant in remembrance for 100 years of the Anzacs'

There are plants that not only symbolise the ANZAC spirit, but are plants that have been grown from seed or plants taken from Gallipoli after the battles.

Pinus halepensis: Lone Pine. This pine grows wild through the Mediterranean and once dominated the Gallipoli Peninsula. Before the landing in Gallipoli Cove in 1915, Turkish soldiers felled the pine trees to make shelters for the trenches they had dug around the ridges and hills. One pine remained so this area and the ensuring battle was known as Lone Pine.  Cones from these cut logs were taken by soldiers and sent home to Australia.

Gallipoli Rosemary: Rosemary officinalis, started from a rosemary plant brought home by a wounded digger from Adelaide that an Anzac transported back in 1915.  It grows on the slopes and ravines of Anzac Cove.

Cistus salviiflorus: Gallipoli rock rose, grown from seeds brought home by returning soldiers after WW1. 

Papaver rhoeas : Flanders poppy flower in spring but can be planted in autumn on Anzac Day. The poppy is worn on poppy day or Remembrance Day, which is November 11.  The poppies which have blood-red flowers grow naturally in disturbed soil so grew and flowered in and around battlefields in France.

Cedar Nursery have in stock now Lone pines, Gallipoli Rock Roses, flanders poppies and Gallipoli rosemary.