Grevillea lanigera 'Mello Yellow' is a really spectacular form of the woolly grevillea which is a great plant for cooler climates such as the southern states of Australia. Once established it is a very low maintenance plant with...
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Grevillea ‘Amazing Grace’
Grevillea 'Amazing Grace' is a wonderful low maintenance ground cover . Its great appeal is the bronze-coloured new growth and the interesting texture the leaf shape creates in the landscape. Use a low phosphorus fertiliser but...
Eremophila glabra ‘Burgundy’ – Emu Bush
A great ground cover Eremophila that flowers all winter with tubular red-brown blooms. The foliage is naturally dense with small, grey green leaves, and pruning after flowering will enhance this even more. It likes a...
Brachyscome multifida – Native Daisy
An attractive compact mounding plant that does not sucker. It has daisy flowers with a lovely contrasting golden centre can be produced all year round, with large flushes in spring and again in summer. Brachyscome...
Brachyscome angustifolia ‘Brasco Violet’
A lovely Australian native perennial daisy that forms a spreading evergreen mound of soft green foliage and has violet-blue flowers through the warmer months, peaking in spring and autumn. Great for mass planting,...
Xerochrysum bracteatum ‘Daisy Fields Gold’ – Everlasting Daisy
A small sub-shrub perennial/biennial with narrow green foliage and a profusion of golden everlasting flowers through the warm months. A great general garden or pot plant and wonderful cut flower. Flowers best in full...
Myoporum floribundum – Weeping Myoporum
An attractive large shrub, with unusual weeping leaves on long arched branches. While it is attractive when not in flower, it becomes even more eye catching in mid spring to early summer when the branches are covered...
Myoporum parvifolium – Creeping Boobialla
A useful ground cover with dense foliage and masses of white or pink star shaped flowers during summer, with spot flowering in spring and autumn. Fast growing and very easy care, and forms a dense weed deterring mat....
Eremophila clavata – Turpentine Bush
A low growing and dense shrub with narrow grey-green, club-shaped leaves. It flowers in spring to late summer with pink to purple flowers. It is drought hardy and can tolerate moderate frost. It is best in a...
Xerochrysum macranthum – White Strawflower
A beautiful everlasting daisy, with pink tinged buds which open to shiny white flowers beginning in spring and going through to summer. It grows as a branching annual or a short-lived perennial sub-shrub with a woody...
Rhodanthe manglesii – Sunray Everlasting
A beautiful annual plant with everlasting daisy flowers in late winter through spring, with spot flowering in summer and autumn. The buds are silver, opening to pink or white flowers with a darker ring around the yellow...
Rhodanthe humboldtiana – Golden Cluster Everlasting
A less common native everlasting annual daisy with large clustered heads of yellow, papery flowers. These open late winter and flower into early spring, and can produce spot flowers at other times as well. This is...
Eremophila clarkei- Turpentine Bush
A variable shrub, growing from half a metre to 4 metres wide approximately. It flowers from autumn to spring, with white, pink or mauve tubular shaped flowers. Endemic to West Australia and South Australia, growing on...
Anigozanthos hybrid ‘Tufty Green’ – Kangaroo Paw
A new Tall and Tough perennial kangaroo paw, with velvety paw shaped flowers in shades of green in spring and summer. The blooms attract birds to the garden to feed, and make long lasting cut flowers. This variety...
Anigozanthos flavidus hybrid ‘Little Lorikeet’ – Kangaroo Paw
Another Tall and Tough perennial kangaroo paw, with velvety paw shaped red and green flowers in spring and summer. The blooms attract birds to the garden to feed, and make long lasting cut flowers. It suits most...
Anigozanthos flavidus ‘Landscape Bronze’ – Kangaroo Paw
Another Tall and Tough perennial kangaroo paw, with velvety paw shaped flowers in spring and summer in shades of bronze, orange, yellow and green. When it blooms, the stems are quite tall at around 2.5 metres. It...
Tasmannia lanceolata – Tasmanian Pepperberry
A handsome large shrub to small tree, native to Tasmania, and a great bushfood plant. It has cream to pale yellow flowers in summer followed by the peppery berries which ripen in autumn, and are very good for flavouring...
Lagarostrobus franklinii – Huon Pine
A slow growing and long lived tree. Grows from 10 to 20 metres tall, and the branches are attractively weeping. In a garden situation it will take decades for it to grow to around 6 metres. It is dioecious, meaning it...
Atherosperma moschatum- Southern Sassafras
A medium to large sized conical shaped tree, It grows to around 6 to 25 m tall in warm temperate areas, in cold areas such as Tasmania it can grow as large as 40 metres. It is a slow growing tree. The leaves and...
Bauera rubioides ‘Double’ – River Rose
A small evergreen shrub growing to around 1-2 metres high and wide. It has numerous dainty pink flowers for most of the year round. A good plant for that difficult perpetually moist shady site. Can be used for soil...