Callistemon 'Red Rocket' is a small and colourful shrub, with bright red new growth on dark older foliage. It makes a great contrast plant, and is low maintenance. It grows to around a metre and a half high and wide,...
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Corymbia maculata variegata ‘Ribbons of Hope’ – Spotted Gum
'Ribbons of Hope' is a great new landscaping gum tree with gorgeously variegated foliage- older leaves are green with a broad cream edge, and the new growth is blush pink. A head turning plant, and very hardy for most...
Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Orange’ – Kangaroo Paw
This is a tough and tall variety of kangaroo paw with bright flowers of orange with yellow shadings. It flowers in mid spring to early summer and the stems are branching, giving more blooms per stem. Birds love the...
Allocasuarina verticillata ‘Noodles’ – She-oak
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...
Ajuga australis – Australian Bugle
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...
Ajuga australis prostrate ‘Aussie Bugle’
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...
Agonis flexuosa ‘Swan River Babe’ – Willow Myrtle
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...
Adenanthos sericeus ‘Dwarf Woolly Bush’
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...
Adenanthos pungens subsp effusus ‘Coral Cover’ – Spiky Adenanthos
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
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...
Acacia aculeatissima ‘Snake Wattle’
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...
Pratia pedunculata – Trailing Pratia
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,...
Scleranthus biflorus – Cushion Bush
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...
Crowea angustifolia – Waxflower
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...
Crowea hybrid ‘Poorinda Ecstasy’ – Waxflower
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...
Cissus antarctica – Kangaroo Vine
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...
Corymbia hybrid ‘Summer Snow’ – Flowering Gum
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...
Pycnosorus globosus – Billy Buttons
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...
Craspedia globosa – Billy Buttons
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...
Darwinia macrostegia – Mondorup Bell
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...