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Noodles is a dwarf shrub, growing to only half to a metre high, and is a great easy care landscaping plant. It has grey green wiry foliage that creates interesting textural effects in the garden. Grows in full sun to part...
Australian Bugle is a dense growing ground cover with upright spikes of mauve flowers in summer. It has deep green foliage with a dark tinge. It is a great mat forming plant for those difficult shady sites or under trees...
Aussie Bugle is a great groundcover perennial for those difficult shady positions. It has an easy going nature and dense matting habit, and has spikes of mauve flowers in summer. The foliage is deep green tinged with...
Swan River Babe is a dwarf form of the popular and easy care Agonis. It is rounded in shape, and grows to around a metre and a half high. Can be pruned to shape and size, or left to grow naturally into a low hedge or...
An attractive shrub with beautiful tactile foliage of silver-green. It has tiny red flowers in spring. It grows to around a metre high and wide. A low maintenance plant that naturally forms a good shape, but not suited to...
A low growing form of Adenanthos, Coral Cover is a densely ground covering plant with pale to bright pink flowers on the ends of the branches. It is attractive to birds and insects, and the needle-like nature of the leaves...
Acacia covenyi - blue bush wattle is a super hardy wattle for most sites apart from waterlogged soils, and is very easy care. It is a great foliage plant, having beautiful blue-grey leaves which contrast nicely with...
This is an easy care, low growing wattle, with fine foliage forming a dense groundcovering mat. It bears yellow ball flowers in late winter to early spring. It grows to around a metre wide, and from groundcovering to a...
A dainty looking plant which spreads from underground stolons to form a carpet of green, and has masses of starry white to pale mauve-blue small flowers in spring and summer. Good for full sun to partial shade,...
A gorgeous little ground covering plant that has a mossy look, with bright green fine leaves. An interesting feature plant that forms sculptural cushions, and moulds itself around rocks. It is also good for pots, either planted to contrast with other plants, or as a...
An attractive shrub from the southern corner of Western Australia with masses of starry white or pink flowers with pink buds from spring to early summer. Variable in height, from around half a metre to three metres...
A tried and tested reliable variety, this is a small and compact shrub, growing to around a metre high and wide. It has attractive light green foliage and pink starry flowers in spring and autumn, with spot...
A vigorous and dense climber that can also be used as a groundcover, it is tough and reliable. It has attractive glossy green leaves, coppery coloured new leaves and stems and climbs by twining tendrils. Will grow in light...
A large shrub to small tree, it has beautiful trusses of creamy white gum blossoms in the warmer months of the year. With large glossy dark green leaves with a light green reverse with reddish new foliage, it is a...
A perennial plant which has an underground rhizome, a clump of silvery grey woolly leaves covered, and golden globe flowers on tall and stout stalks. Flowering from spring to summer, the blooms are superb cut flowers and for...
A very attractive perennial plant with long stemmed golden globe flowers. Long flowering, from spring to summer, on a narrow rosette of leaves which are covered in woolly hairs. They naturally grow in rather swampy places, so...
A small shrub with gorgeous pendulous red and white bell flowers in autumn to spring. It is native to the Stirling Ranges in Western Australia. Grows from 30 centimetres to around a metre, with small glossy green leaves and...
This large shrub or small tree which grows to around six metres is now known as Banksia sessilis. It has prickly holly-like leaves and rounded pale yellow brush flowers. It blooms heavily from winter to late spring, and is nectar rich and attracts wildlife. Parrots...
A small tree from Western New South Wales, it is a good bush tucker plant. It grows to around six to eight metres high, and likes a sandy to clay loam soil with very good drainage in a sunny spot. Related to capers, it...
A small shrub native to Western Australia, it naturally grows on sandy soils, so needs good drainage and a drier climate to grow at its best. It has lovely starry pink or purple flowers with contrasting stamens in...