Berries

Sunshine Blue is a semi-dwarf, self-fertile blueberry plant that is perfect for anyone looking for a versatile plant that produces delicious berries. This plant is known for its showy hot pink flowers that fade to white in spring, and it yields a large crop of medium-sized, sweet, and dark blue berries. Sunshine Blue fruits from December to January, while its flowers bloom from October to November. This plant is a great addition to patios and gardens in cooler areas. Apply a complete fertiliser in spring.

Soil: Prefers an acidic soil with a pH of 4.5-5.5. Before planting, improve the soil by adding decomposed manure and compost. This is especially important in clay soils, as blueberries prefer a free-draining soil high in organic matter.
Conditions: Sunny position that is protected from wind. It requires 150 hours of winter chill, making it an ideal choice for the subtropics.
Size: Height 1.2m x width 1.2m

Bring home the joy of summer with Chester Blackberry! This self-fertile, deciduous berry bush is a vigorous grower, rewarding you with masses of large, juicy blackberries over the season. Give it some room to stretch and a trellis or support to climb, and watch it transform your garden into a productive and delicious haven. Perfect for fresh eating, jams, desserts, or sharing straight from the garden—Chester Blackberry is easy to grow and a true treat for both gardeners and wildlife.

Soil: Well-drained humus-rich soil.
Condition: Prefers full sun and can handle frosts
Size: Height 2m x width 3m

Raspberry Dream - bred by Kings Park and Botanic Garden - is an exceptional performer that produces vivid red-pink flowers all year round. Each flower head is densely packed with small flowers, with long styles that bend over like hairpins before straightening out. With its naturally compact growing habit, Raspberry Dream is ideal for borders along paths, fence lines, driveways, and beds. Prune lightly as necessary to maintain its shape, and occasionally use a slow-release native fertilizer for optimal growth.

Soil: Adaptable to most soil types.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, frost, and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 1.5m x width 1.5m

Raspberry Ripple is a small evergreen native shrub with soft, needle-like foliage. The shrub produces a spectacular mass display of varicoloured spider flowers of raspberry pink and white from autumn to early spring. Dense in habit, Raspberry Ripple is a great native bird and bee attractor and is excellent for use in rockeries. It is a useful shrub where areas require low-level cover.

Soil: Adapts to most well-drained soils.
Conditions: Full sun to dappled shade.
Size: Height 0.5m x width 1.5m

Blue Rose is a highbush variety that loves cooler climates, producing plump, juicy berries through summer that taste best when picked straight from the bush. Not just a fruiting star, this deciduous blueberry also puts on a seasonal show with fiery red autumn foliage—so you get both a harvest and a display garden moment in one. Self-fertile (yay, you only need one!) but plant with another blueberry for bumper crops. Perfect for pots, small gardens, or a berry patch to raid on summer mornings. 

Soil: Free-draining loose soil
Conditions: Prefers full sun to part shade.
Size: Height 2m x width 1.5m

The Blueberry Ash is an Australian native found naturally along the Eastern coast of Australia. It has spectacular foliage beginning reddish-pink when young, turning a bright, vivid green when mature and returning to a deep red upon aging. The Blueberry Ash produces fragrant white to pink feathery flowers with fringed edges that hang like tiny lampshades during spring and summer. The ornamental display continues with the appearance of dark blue berries from which the native tree gets its name. This hardy tree is ideal as a specimen tree, informal hedge and, with pruning, can be kept as a large shrub.

Soil: Suits most soil types but must be moist and well-drained.
Conditions: Suits full sun to heavy shade. It is adaptable to many climate zones provided water is available.
Size: Height 10-15m x width 3-6m

Caroline Blueberry is a Northern Highbush Blueberry - a deciduous, fruiting plant that is native to the colder areas of Canada & the United States. These varieties of blueberry plants perform well in Australia and provide a bounty of berries. Caroline is an early fruiting blueberry producing medium-sized, fragrant fruits with a beautiful sweet taste. It is a deciduous shrub with oval leaves, producing pretty bell-shaped white flowers in spring, followed by small blue-purple berries in summer. The leaves of Caroline take on attractive red-orange tones in autumn. Self-pollinating, but cross-pollination with another type with the same bloom time produces higher yields. Blueberries can produce an abundance of fruit over many months, keep them evenly watered with good drainage and use a low nitrogen fertiliser.

Soil: To grow successfully provide organic matter and ample moisture along with a soil pH of 5.5, so if you have alkaline soil you need to consider growing these in pots.
Conditions: It grows best in a sunny but protected position with some shade from the hottest afternoon sun during summer. Approximately 750-1200 hours chilling required for proper dormancy. 
Size: Height 1.5m x width 1.5m

The Bougainvillea Raspberry Ice is an evergreen, vigorous climber that produces green and yellow variegated foliage and raspberry-coloured bracts during summer. The eye-catching climber is versatile offering many options - dense ground cover when left to ramble over embankments, explode in colour in mass plantings, or as a stunning spectacle when trained to grow up fences or trellis.

Soil: Will do best in neutral to slightly acidic soils.
Conditions: Full sun position. Coastal and drought hardy. Frost sensitive.
Size: Height 3m x width 2m