The latest in crazy name changes is that of the Sturt's Desert Pea. Following our Radio Review interview with Victorian nurseryman, Doug McKenzie, and follow up story in the Spring 1999 issue of the News, there is revived interest in this 'icon of the desert'. Doug described how he was grafting the standard red Sturt's Pea and the new coloured forms (purple, white and multi-coloured) onto the New Zealand Glory Pea (Clianthus puniceus) as the understock in order to make the plant more tolerant of...
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