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The beautiful orange flowers tipped with yellow borne all year round on a relatively compact shrub are the key features of this stunning grevillea. It makes a wonderful feature plant that will attract spectacular nectar...
A relatively tough, long-lived kangaroo paw of medium height and beautiful pink-red and yellow flower colour. This plant makes for a wonderful feature in a sunny, well drained spot in the garden and is tougher than many kangaroo...
Tetragonia, Warrigal greens, or New Zealand spinach, is a low growing, perennial, edible groundcover with a trailing habit. It grows in poor, dry conditions, but an open position with moist, light fertile soil will produce a flourishing plant. It is frost sensitive....
Beautiful balls of snow white flowers contrast nicely with the small, glossy dark green leaves on a lovely compact shrub. This makes a wonderful dwarf feature shrub for the front of a sunny garden bed or in a...
Masses of bright pink pom pom like flower heads complement the glossy dark green foliage on a compact dwarf shrub. Use it as a feature plant for the front of a sunny shrubbery or rockery or as a low growing pot plant. It is perfectly suited to windy and salty...
The stunning silvery foliage borne on upright branches and the masses of white daisy flowers in spring are the key features of this lovely Australian shrub. Use it as a feature plant for a shrubbery where the light coloured...
The spectacular silver foliage are complemented by lemon yellow flowers on a mounding small perennial plant. This is an outstanding plant that is salt and wind resistant for coastal areas. Use it to give a lift to any slightly shady parts of the garden where it can be...
The compact, dwarf habit and stunning red flowers are the key features of this beautiful form of the ever popular NSW Christmas Bush. Use it as a feature shrub in a sunny well drained position in the garden or as a...
The stunning bright orange flowers on a reasonably tall branched flower stem along with grey-green foliage are the key features of this beautiful kangaroo paw. Use it as bird attracting feature plant for a sunny well...
This is one of the most prolific flowering of all kangaroo paws and it does it all year round. The smaller habit and bright red flowers make a dramatic statement as a feature plant in the garden, for larger landscaping...
This is a rather delightful smaller kangaroo paw hybrid that features red flower stems with bright yellow medium sized flowers. A sunny well-drained spot will give the best results. An alternative is to grow it in a pot to...
This is a lovely clumping plant that has bright starry blue or white flowers borne through spring and summer. It makes a lovely rockery or border plant that also works well in a pot. Remove the dead flowers and associated stems after they have finished. [gallery...
A hardy and compact small shrub with bright green aromatic foliage, in late winter it bears masses of pink buds which open to the white starry flowers, often blooming till the end of spring. This is a great...
The lovely mauve purple bottlebrush flowers are complemented by fine greyish stem clasping foliage. It makes a wonderful feature shrub. Give it a light trim after it finishes flowering.
The gorgeous large pink flowers combine with small, aromatic dark green leaves to give an outstanding shrub for the garden. It makes a great feature plant in a shrubbery and you can cut the flowers for indoor decoration as well. Trim lightly after it finishes...
Hardy upright shrub to 3 metres with small heath-like leaves. It has attractive fluffy pink flowers borne from spring to summer. It is frost resistant. A useful screening shrub, good for bees and small birds.
The attractively layered form of this plant along with the cream yellow flowers and grey green foliage are its outstanding features. Use it as feature shrub for the front of a garden bed or as an interesting rockery...
The delicate mauve flowers that are plentiful in spring and summer and its ground covering habit are the key features of this lovely little plant from the mint family. It is fantastic for pots & hanging baskets and also makes an excellent rockery plant. Give it a...
Unusual delicate green and red flowers are produced for most of the year on a compact mounding shrub. It tolerates some shade and so makes a very useful understorey shrub for lightly shaded gardens. Give it a light trim at the end of spring to keep it tidy. [gallery...
The dense mounding habit of this neat shrub features a prolific display of scarlet flowers over an extended period. The mid-green prickly needle-like foliage is great for providing bird habitat so use this as a...