Xanthorrhoea glauca

🔥 Xanthorrhoea glauca – Grass Tree / Black Grass
 📏 Height: 1–5 m (with trunk) | 🌾 Long, thin, blue-green (glaucous) leaves, fountain-shaped
 🪵 Trunk often blackened by fire, often branched
 🌍 Origin
 🇦🇺 Eastern Australia
 🔥 A plant that symbolizes fire resilience in the Australian bush.
 📍 Ideal for
 🏜 Dry gardens, arid landscapes, contemporary or naturalistic gardens
 🌬 Excellent for exposed, hot, water-poor spaces
 🌼 Blooming
 📅 After fires or in spring-summer
 🌸 Flower spike up to 2 m high, with small creamy white flowers
 🐝 Attracts pollinating insects
 💧 Resistance
 🌞 Full sun | 🌵 Hardy in extreme drought
 ❄️ Resistant to temperatures up to -5 / -7 °C | 🪴 Loves sandy, acidic, well-drained soils
 🧰 Care
 ⚠️ Very slow growth (1–2 cm/year) but very long life
 ✂️ Do not prune the living leaves; only the dry ones at the base.
 🔥 In nature, it blooms again after fire: an emblem of regeneration