Classic Cars  Summer Garden Chamelaucium uncinatum is a flowering

Chamelaucium uncinatum is a flowering shrub recognisable perhaps from cut flowers

The classic story

The attractively dark leaves offer a perfect foil for an abundance of small creamy blooms which appear in early spring

and happy in even poor soil

bright pink flowers which are full-petalled and deeply cupped

Classic Cars  Summer Garden Chamelaucium uncinatum is a floweringFrom the Jim Heimann collection, a seminal collection of classic car adsfrom the populism of the Ford Model T in the 1910s, through the sexy, aspirational cruisers of the 1950s, the quirkiness of the VW Beetle ads in the 1960s, right up to the present day of rugged SUVs and sleek, deluxe sports models.