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Eremophila glabra ‘Burgundy’ – Emu Bush

A great ground cover Eremophila that flowers all winter with tubular red-brown blooms. The foliage is naturally dense with small, grey green leaves, and pruning after flowering will enhance this even more. It likes a sunny spot, well drained soil and low humidity. Great for coastal gardens. This is a useful plant for habitat gardens…

Brachyscome multifida – Native Daisy

An attractive compact mounding plant that does not sucker. It has daisy flowers with a lovely contrasting golden centre can be produced all year round, with large flushes in spring and again in summer. Brachyscome multifida has various colour forms, the most common being violet-blue, as well as a white form. Great for mass planting,…

Brachyscome angustifolia ‘Brasco Violet’

A lovely Australian native perennial daisy that forms a spreading evergreen mound of soft green foliage and has violet-blue flowers through the warmer months, peaking in spring and autumn. Great for mass planting, rockeries and containers. A very easy care plant, a light trim if it becomes untidy is all that is needed. Best flowering…

Myoporum floribundum – Weeping Myoporum

An attractive large shrub, with unusual weeping leaves on long arched branches. While it is attractive when not in flower, it becomes even more eye catching in mid spring to early summer when the branches are covered with profuse small white flowers, making it look like the branches are covered in snow. It can be…

Myoporum parvifolium – Creeping Boobialla

A useful ground cover with dense foliage and masses of white or pink star shaped flowers during summer, with spot flowering in spring and autumn. Fast growing and very easy care, and forms a dense weed deterring mat. Likes a sunny spot, frost and drought tolerant. Hardy in a wide range of soils and climates.

Eremophila clavata – Turpentine Bush

A low growing and dense  shrub with narrow grey-green, club-shaped leaves. It flowers in spring to late summer with pink to purple flowers. It is drought hardy and can tolerate moderate frost. It is best in a well-drained soil in a warm sunny and low-humidity environment. Best planted on slopes or mounds on sandy to…

Xerochrysum macranthum – White Strawflower

A beautiful everlasting daisy, with pink tinged buds which open to shiny white flowers beginning in spring and going through to summer. It grows as a branching annual or a short-lived perennial sub-shrub with a woody base, growing to around a metre high. Likes a sunny open position in well drained soil, appreciates some watering…

Rhodanthe manglesii – Sunray Everlasting

A beautiful annual plant with everlasting daisy flowers in late winter through spring, with spot flowering in summer and autumn. The buds are silver, opening to pink or white flowers with a darker ring around the yellow centre which adds to the attractiveness.The plant is upright and branching, and the leaves are heart shaped. This…

Rhodanthe humboldtiana – Golden Cluster Everlasting

A less common native everlasting annual daisy with large clustered heads of yellow, papery flowers. These open late winter and flower into early spring, and can produce spot flowers at other times as well. This is a great variety to create wildflower meadows.The plant is attractive in its own right, with grey green foliage and…