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Low maintenance and quick to establish, this new dwarf bottlebrush cultivar has emerald-green foliage with a light silver tones on new growth. A good feature plant or pruned into a hedge due to the dense foliage, this...
Anigozanthos Landscape Violet is from the Tall and Tough range from Gardening With Angus. It suits most soils and can be grown in sun to partial shade. Higher light levels will give better flowering. This kangaroo paw...
A tropical grevillea from the Kimberley and NT, growing as a large shrub to small tree. It has prickly margined leaves and cream or green flowers. Low phosphorus fertiliser is advisable. Note - some grevilleas can cause...
A tall tropical growing gum tree that occurs along the Top End of Australia, from Cape York in Queensland to The Kimberley in Western Australia. It can grow to 30 metres tall but more usually around 20 metres, and has...
A lovely clumping perennial plant with bright yellow flowers in spring and an attractive ball shaped plant. It likes good drainage and looks spectacular mass planted, as a border, pot specimen or dotted in the garden. Feed...
This plant is a great edible native plant, and grows naturally along coastal areas in southern states of Australia. It can be a compact plant like parsley, or have a cascading form which looks great grown on banks...
Citrus glauca is also known as the Desert Lime, and this cultivar in the Citrus Gems range provides abundant yields and can withstand difficult conditions, particularly dry conditions, as this species originates in the...
Sunrise Lime is a cultivar in the Citrus Gems range; it is a cross between the finger lime and the calamondin, developed by the CSIRO. This hybrid is similar to a kumquat in that the fruit can be eaten whole, as the...
Green Sapphire is a cultivar in the Citrus Gems range, which are grafted and tolerate more challenging conditions than regular citrus. This cultivar looks beautiful in the garden with its attractive soft, weeping...
Rainforest Pearl is a cultivar in the Citrus Gems range, grafted to make the plants hardier and tolerant of frost and dry conditions. This cultivar prefers conditions closer to the Finger Lime though, which comes...
Judy's Everbearing is a prolific cultivar, producing a plentiful crop of finger limes from summer to autumn and may produce fruits sporadically throughout the year. The fruits are a rich, dark green colour, and the pearls...
Pink Ice was one of the first commercialised finger lime varieties, and is a medium size shrub producing red to burgundy coloured fruits with clear or pink pearls of juice inside. The aroma of the fruits is similar to ruby...
A small to medium sized rainforest tree, Davidson's plum is a popular bush tucker plant. It bears plum sized fruit with intensely purple coloured skin and red flesh right through the fruit when ripe, and they have a very...
This is a neat palm with self cleaning leaves, and the foliage is decorative with a dense feathery look, growing from a grey trunk. It grows to around 10 metres tall in garden situations. This beautiful palm was...
D' emerald is another cultivar in the Citrus Gems range, which are grafted and can tolerate more challenging conditions than other citrus. This plant produces finger shaped, slender dark coloured fruits, with bright,...
The Red Centre Lime produces beautiful deep red fruits, round and small with pink tinged flesh on the inside. It is a cross between the Finger lime (Citrus australasica) and the Burmese Rangpur lime (Citrus x...
This charming perennial is a miniature version of the larger flannel flower, and has wiry stems with smaller and similar felty flowers. It blooms for most of the year. It has small grey leaves scattered over the...
An attractive and useful shrub that has a naturally compact shape and silver grey leaves. Use for colour contrast against other plants or where the silver foliage will light up the garden. Does well in coastal gardens as...
A hardy small shrub that adapts well to a wide range of environments. Profuse flowering is a feature. Great plant for a shrubbery or pot, and can be trimmed to shape the plant if desired, though untrimmed plants are quite...
This is a white calyx version of the popular NSW Christmas bush, which grows to a similar height and width as the red varieties. Like the red ones, this large shrub to small tree is suitable for average gardens,...