Evergreen Plants

If you're looking for a hardy native shrub, then look no further than Grey Edge! The Rhagodia parabolica is a small to medium shrub with attractive grey-green felty leaves featuring a slight twist. Small greenish-white fragrant flowers appear in spring and summer, followed by bright red fruit. Grey Edge can make a wonderful addition to the garden or landscape where the lovely grey foliage can be used to advantage. Ideal for waterwise gardens, erosion control, coastal windbreaks and roadside hedges.

Soil: Tolerates most well-drained soil types including clay, salt, and sand. 
Conditions: Full sun. Light frost, drought, salt, wind and coastal tolerant. Doesn't like high humidity.
Size: Height 2m x width 2m

Elevate your garden with the mesmerizing beauty of Wisteria Blue Sapphire. This chinese wisteria variety is renowned for its enchanting, fragrant mauve-blue flowers that drape gracefully in drooping clusters from late spring onwards. Each lavender-blue blossom, stretching up to 30cm, fills the air with a sweet, intoxicating scent. Adorned with lush mid-green foliage that transforms into stunning yellow hues in the autumn, this climber adds a touch of seasonal charm to your landscape. 
Though it can spread up to 3m, regular pruning keeps it neatly contained and visually pleasing. Whether trained along fences, trellises, or walls, Blue Sapphire is favoured for its hardiness, ease of maintenance, and stunning appearance.
 
Soil: Well-drained, moist soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Frost, wind and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 10m x width 6m

Tristaniopsis laurina Burgundy Blush is a selected dwarf form of Tristaniopsis laurina. It is a compact and brightly coloured shrub, with rich burgundy growth in winter which contrasts beautifully with the normally deep green foliage. This plant is compact in habit making it suitable for any garden that requires low structured plantings and little maintenance. Burgundy Blushs' attractive rich red foliage and compact habit makes a stunning low to medium hedge and is the native alternative to Photinia robusta. 


Soil: Wel-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun to light dappled shade. Frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 1.5m x width 1.5m

Intensely red flowers adorn Aloha Dark Red Mandevilla - a gorgeous plant that can be trained to climb, trail or cascade. Add colour to your garden with this striking flowering vine as the vibrant dark red blooms flower continuously from spring until autumn. They like something to climb up like wire mesh fencing, arbors, trellises or pergolas. Mandevilla enjoy a feed now and again so use either a general purpose controlled release fertiliser in spring and autumn or one of the many liquid feeds. You’ll be rewarded with denser, healthier foliage and increased flowering response. Cut back to desired shape after flowering and they will even respond to a hard cut. Best to do that before winter at the end of their flowering season.

Soil: Plant them in compost-rich, free-draining soil directly in the ground or in a pot.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought and coastal tolerant. Frost tender.
Size: Height 4m x width 0.5m

Luculia Early Dawn is reputed to be one of the best fragrant flowered shrubs with fragrance likened to gardenia and vanilla. It is a beautiful semi-evergreen plant with magnificent large, soft glossy-green leaves. Sizable clusters of delightfully fragrant light pink flowers are produced in early winter. Early Dawn makes a lovely specimen shrub in any garden or a stunning semi-hedge. After flowering prune back to half height and follow up with an application of slow-release fertiliser to encourage new growth and maintain a neat compact habit.

Soil: Well-drained soil. Keep moist in warmer months.
Conditions: Protect from frost in a sheltered, sunny position.
Size: Height 2-3m x width 1-2m

Limonium Dazzle Rocks is a compact, mound-forming, evergreen perennial with sprays of small lavender-purple flowers blooming in abundance on thin stems held above a low-growing rosette of leaves. Also known as Statice, the clusters of long-lasting flowers are a perfect beacon for attracting highly valued pollinators to your garden. A stunning plant in a pot or in the garden, these beautiful flowers look great in a vase, and are wonderful as a dried flower, making this an extremely versatile plant however it is used.

Soil: Well-drained soil. Tolerates soils with higher salinity.
Conditions: Full sun. Coastal, drought, wind, salt and heat hardy
Size: Height 30-50cm x width 30-60cm

Plum Magic Lilly Pilly is a striking evergreen shrub grown for its colourful foliage and versatile garden use. New growth emerges in rich plum tones, creating a dramatic contrast against the deep green mature leaves. The intensity of this colour combination can give the plant an almost black-plum appearance, making it a standout feature in the landscape. Highly adaptable, Plum Magic Lilly Pilly can be used for both low borders and taller hedges, responding well to regular pruning and shaping. Its dense growth habit makes it ideal for privacy screens, formal hedging, small garden borders, and even topiary. Hardy and attractive year-round, it is a popular choice for adding bold foliage colour and structure to a wide range of garden designs.

Soil: Most well-drained soils.
Conditions: Full sun to partial shade. Drought and coastal hardy. Light frost tolerance.
Size: Height 6m x width 2m

Mrs Edward Harding Lilac is a highly decorative tree that produces stunning displays of colourful flowers. This species flowers in spring with dense, heavily-fragrant clusters of deep purplish-red flowers that fade to deep pink. They attract butterflies, bees and nectar-eating birds into the garden. This species is a favourite for borders, screening, mass planting or as a specimen plant in any garden.

Soil: Well-drained, humus-rich soil
Conditions: Full sun or part shade. Tolerant of frost
Size: Height 4m x width 4m