A hardy and easy care mounded ground covering to prostrate shrub that comes alive in early summer with masses of fluffy white flowers. It has a spread of up to 4 metres, with a height of 30cms to 1 metre. The dark green leaves are small and aromatic when crushed, new...
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Westringia fruticosa ‘Bulli Coastal Creeper’
A naturally dense growing and compact ground cover low shrub with grey-green foliage. It bears small white flowers in spring and with a further sprinkling throughout the year. A very easy care ground cover suitable for seaside and general garden plantings, about the...
Brachyscome ‘Valencia’
A low growing perennial daisy, bearing pale pink flowers that grow a little darker as they age. It blooms for most of the year, with peak flowering in the warm months. Grows in well drained soils in full sun or part shade. Summer water may be required in dry periods....
Banksia marginata ‘Coastal Spread’
A dense low growing and easy care banksia with a naturally mounding and compact shape. It has bright yellow flower cones attractively held on the outside of the bush. This plant is a real magnet for birds and Pygmy...
Grevillea diminuta
This beautiful, spreading shrub grows to 1m in height, and up to 4m in diameter. It blooms from spring to early summer with very attractive pendulous rusty-orange and red clusters of flowers that are a great food...
Thryptomene saxicola – Heath Myrtle
A small and very useful shrub, growing to around a metre high and wide, with dainty pink flowers covering the pendulous branches in late winter and spring, and some spot flowering for the rest of the year. A great plant...
Atriplex cinerea – Coastal Saltbush
A great bush tucker plant, with grey foliage that is used as an ingredient for savoury dishes, plus is a useful stock feed on farms as it is highly tolerant of saline conditions and . A medium sized shrub growing from...
Chrysocephalum baxteri – Fringed Everlasting
A low growing perennial plant that produces a cluster of bright white everlasting daisy flowers with golden yellow centres from spring through to autumn. The narrow foliage is a silvery green which contrasts beautifully...
Xerochrysum papillosum ‘Linda’s Pink’ – Everlasting Daisy
A lovely pink form of Xerochrysum papillosum which normally has all white flowers and naturally grows in southern Victoria and Tasmania. A hardy and adaptable perennial plant and makes a wonderful garden plant. It will...
Correa reflexa ‘Northern Belle’
A low, spreading and dense shrub growing around half a metre high and to around 2 metres wide. It is a long flowering plant, mainly in autumn but spot flowering in other seasons as well, and the nectar rich pendulous bell...
Melaleuca gibbosa ‘Pink Passion’ – Honey Myrtle
A dark pink flowered form of this hardy and very adaptable shrub. Grows from 1 to 1.5 metres tall and a metre wide. Good in well drained spots to soils that become water logged. Likes sun to part shade. The leaves are...
Leptospermum scoparium var. eximium – Tea Tree
A Tasmanian form of tea tree from coastal areas, growing to around 2 to 3 metres high, with a lovely compact and dense habit. A great plant for well-drained and coastal sites, very hardy in salt laden windy sites as...
Leptospermum scoparium hybrid ‘Ballerina Improved’ – Tea Tree
An attractive upright fast growing shrub to around 2.5m tall.The dark foliage is a feature year round, but the the plant really comes alive in spring with an eye catching flush of dark pink to red flowers.The flowers are...
Kunzea ambigua ‘Will’s Selection’ – Tick Bush
An upright form of Kunzea ambigua, it has abundant pink buds that open to white flowers. Grows from 2 to 4 metres high, 2 to 3 metres wide. Attracts birds and insects, including colourful bettles. Well drained, sunny...
Leptospermum scoparium ‘Jim’s Rocky Rambler’ – Tea tree
Leptospermum scoparium ‘Jim’s Rocky Rambler’ is an attractive Tasmanian form of Manuka tea tree. This compact mounding form grows with arching branches that display bright white flowers well in spring that are visited...
Leptospermum scoparium hybrid ‘Silver Fantasy’ – Tea Tree
A silver-foliaged spreading shrub that produces pink flowers in spring. An attractive plant year round that is used by florists for both foliage and flower, in the garden it is also enjoyed by many insects that provide...
Grevillea ‘Grassfire’
The attractive green pinnate leaves are studded with lots of bright red toothbrush flowers in spring and summer, making this a superb, dense ground cover. Use it to stabilise banks or as an extensive ground cover to...
Anigozanthos flavidus – Tall Kangaroo Paw – Green
The Tall Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos flavidus) is the most reliable and long lived of this iconic group of Western Australian plants. The leathery, dark green leaves are very tough and tend to hold up better against leaf...
Anigozanthos flavidus – Tall Kangaroo Paw – Red
T The Tall Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos flavidus) is the most reliable and long lived of this iconic group of Western Australian plants. The leathery, dark green leaves are very tough and tend to hold up better against...
Anigozanthos viridis – Green Kangaroo Paw
A very attractive small kangaroo paw species with narrow, upright greyish green leaves on a clumping perennial plant. It flowers from late winter and extends through to mid spring, in shades of bright green infused...