Exotics & Ornamentals

Protea Pink Crown is a compact evergreen shrub celebrated for its breathtaking autumn to winter display. It produces soft, pale pink and cream flowers with delicately layered bracts that create a refined, almost ethereal appearance. The blooms look spectacular showcased on the shrub and are equally impressive as long-lasting cut flowers indoors. Ideal as a stand-alone specimen, Pink Crown makes a striking focal point in garden beds, native landscapes, or decorative containers. Its naturally neat growth habit makes it well suited to smaller gardens while still delivering dramatic visual impact. Light pruning after flowering will help maintain shape and encourage a bushier, more compact growth habit, ensuring an even more abundant floral display the following season.

Soil: Well-drained soil. If you don't have well-drained soil, create a mound to facilitate planting
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, heat and coastal tolerant. Provide shelter in colder climates.
Size: Height 1.5-1.8m x width 1.5-1.8m

Leucadendron galpinii Purple Haze is a striking evergreen shrub prized for its dramatic foliage colour and architectural form. During winter, the plant develops deep purple tones through its foliage, beautifully contrasted by silver-grey highlights that create a shimmering effect in the garden. In late spring to summer, attractive silver cones appear, adding further visual interest and making the plant highly desirable for floral arrangements and cut flowers. This smaller-growing leucadendron makes an excellent feature plant, with its unusual purple-tinted foliage providing a bold contrast among green shrubs and perennials. It works well in garden beds, coastal gardens, and low-maintenance landscapes, and also performs beautifully in large pots or containers where its colour and form can be showcased.

Soil: Well-drained, native soil.
Conditions: Full sun position. Light frost and drought tolerant once established.
Size: Height 1.5m x width 1m

The Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) is a majestic, long-lived specimen tree, perfectly suited to paddocks and large gardens where it has room to grow into its full grandeur. With a broad, spreading canopy and deeply furrowed dark bark, it creates impressive shade while adding strong structural beauty to the landscape. In spring, graceful olive-green catkins hang from the branches, bringing seasonal interest before developing into abundant crops of round, 5cm walnuts encased in thick green husks. By autumn, the ripe nuts naturally fall from the tree, ready to be gathered. Once hulled and properly dried, they can be stored for up to two years in a cool, dry place. Inside the hard shell is a richly flavoured kernel with a sweet, delicate walnut taste that is highly prized for snacking, baking, and savoury cooking. Black walnuts are considered one of the most premium nuts available, valued for their distinctive flavour as well as their impressive nutritional benefits.

Soil: Well-drained, loamy soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Frost tolerant.
Size: Height 15m x width 10m