Apr 14, 2023 | Plant Database
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...
Apr 14, 2023 | Plant Database
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...
Apr 14, 2023 | Plant Database
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...
Apr 4, 2023 | Plant Database
A variable shrub, growing from half a metre to 4 metres wide approximately. It flowers from autumn to spring, with white, pink or mauve tubular shaped flowers. Endemic to West Australia and South Australia, growing on sandy to clay soils. It is drought hardy and can...
Feb 14, 2023 | Kangaroo Paws, Plant Database
A new Tall and Tough perennial kangaroo paw, with velvety paw shaped flowers in shades of green in spring and summer. The blooms attract birds to the garden to feed, and make long lasting cut flowers. This variety has quite narrow leaves, and is attractive in its own...
Jan 31, 2023 | Kangaroo Paws, Plant Database
Another Tall and Tough perennial kangaroo paw, with velvety paw shaped red and green flowers in spring and summer. The blooms attract birds to the garden to feed, and make long lasting cut flowers. It suits most soils and can be grown in sun to part shade. It is a...
Jan 18, 2023 | Plant Database
Another Tall and Tough perennial kangaroo paw, with velvety paw shaped flowers in spring and summer in shades of bronze, orange, yellow and green. When it blooms, the stems are quite tall at around 2.5 metres. It suits most soils and can be grown in sun to part shade....
Jan 18, 2023 | Newsletters
As we begin 2023 the desire to look after our environment is something we can all get excited and busy about at a personal level, and especially in our backyards and other local areas that we may be the custodians of. Biodiversity was the subject of a United Nations...
Jan 12, 2023 | Plant Database
A handsome large shrub to small tree, native to Tasmania, and a great bushfood plant. It has cream to pale yellow flowers in summer followed by the peppery berries which ripen in autumn, and are very good for flavouring for savoury dishes and drinks. The berries have...
Jan 10, 2023 | Plant Database
A slow growing and long lived tree. Grows from 10 to 20 metres tall, and the branches are attractively weeping. In a garden situation it will take decades for it to grow to around 6 metres. It is dioecious, meaning it has male and female flowers on separate plants....
