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A beautiful and quite hardy weeping large shrub with gorgeous soft foliage with burgundy tones amongst the green leaves. It is fast growing to a useful 3 metres high and 2 metres wide, making it a great screening and wind...
A lovely flowering shrub, useful for informal hedging, screening and as a feature plant. It flowers prolifically in spring to summer, with bright pink bottlebrush flowers that are laden with nectar. Once established it is...
A tough evergreen little plant for cooler areas, it grows with a compact habit. It has attractive small round leaves that have a minty fragrance when crushed, due to the presence of oil glands in the leaves. It flowers...
A wonderful ground cover plant, it has dense foliage with close set small mid green leaves, giving a very attractive appearance even when not in flower. It has small pink spider type flowers in winter to spring. It is...
A very useful tough and hardy groundcover plant for dry places. It grows to around 30 centimetres high and can cover around 2-3 metres wide, with attractive grey green foliage. It has orange tubular flowers in spring and...
An excellent flowering large shrub, useful for informal hedging and screening. The mauve-red bottlebrush flowers are produced in abundance in late spring to summer, with spot flowering in autumn as well, and are...
A superb ground cover grevillea, with an attractive dense growth habit that will suppress weeds. It flowers over a long period, from winter to spring with some spot flowers in autumn, with small spider type red and...
This hardy and dense prostrate grevillea is a great ground covering plant. It bears spider form apricot blooms over most of spring. The slightly prickly foliage provides good cover for small wildlife. It is drought and...
This native lily is named for it's stunning yellow blooms (similar in appearance to jonquils and daffodils) Calostemma comes from Greek and translates to 'beautiful crown', and Luteum from Latin meaning yellow. It grows...
A great groundcovering grevillea, it has bronze coloured new growth on the ferny and naturally dense foliage. One plant can spread to 3 metres wide, making it a useful and weed deterring plant for landscaping work....
A delightful and very useful small shrub that is naturally compact growing and mounding. It bears masses of pendant pink bell flowers in winter to spring, which are visited by small nectar loving birds and insects. A...
A low growing shrub to 1.5 metres high, with spider type red flowers in late winter to spring. It has fine foliage. It is a hardy plant, best in a sunny spot in well drained soil. Bird attracting and the flowers can be...
A very useful low and naturally dense and rounded growing small shrub, growing to 1 metre high and 2 metres wide. It has red to orange spider type flowers which are very attractive to nectar eating birds and insects,...
A useful large shrub for informal hedging and screening, with its dense growth habit and ability to grow in most soils and climates. It has near year round spot flowering, with extra bursts in winter and spring,...
An easy care spreading low shrub with very attractive soft grey green foliage which creates a lovely contrast for other plants. It has small insignificant red-pink flowers in spring that are attractive to small nectar...
A beautiful plant for flower displays, with flowers produced for most of the year. This is a selected seed range that produces a variety of pink shades of flowers. The best flush of blooms in spring, but they will...
This twining vine is native to northern coastal NSW and southern Queensland, so suits sub-tropical areas. It bears large trusses of purple pea flowers in late winter to spring, which resemble the exotic wisteria, but this...
A compact form of Banksia paludosa, Little Pal is a useful small shrub that has a long flowering season, from autumn to winter, and the yellow flowers are highly attractive to nectar eating birds. The naturally dense...
Banksia 'Coastal Cushion' is a useful and low maintenance low growing banksia that flowers its head off from autumn to winter. It is a naturally dense grower, forming a wide low mound that cover the ground, and a little...
A native lily, this long-lived herb has strappy leaves appearing through Spring, followed by eye-catching red to purple flowers which appear in clusters on the compact leafless flower stems in Summer. Once common across...