Exotics & Ornamentals

Koelreuteria paniculata Golden Rain tree is an elegant, slow-growing small tree. It has serrated, green leaves and branches that droop at the ends creating a slight weeping effect. The foliage turns bronze to gold in autumn and is held on the tree until quite late in the season. In summer, drupes of bright yellow flowers are produced, followed by papery lantern-like seed pods that hang from the tree in large clusters. In maturity, the grey-brown bark develops a furrowed appearance and the tree becomes more round with an overall flat canopy.

Soil: Adaptable to most soil types
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Drought and frost tolerant.
Size: Height 6m x width 6m

Hedera helix Hahn’s Self-Branching is a versatile, low-growing ivy with a naturally dense, self-branching habit that forms a lush carpet of glossy, dark-green, triangular leaves. Its compact, spreading form makes it perfect for hanging baskets, containers, window boxes, or as a dependable groundcover that fills space quickly and neatly. It also clings well to stone walls and other textured surfaces, adding a classic evergreen touch year-round. In spring and again in winter, subtle chartreuse-green flower clusters appear, attracting bees and other beneficial pollinators. Fast-growing, hardy and evergreen, this ivy is an easy-care choice for adding greenery to shaded areas, softening garden edges, or creating a living backdrop in courtyard or woodland-style plantings.

Soil: Moist, well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun to partial shade. Tolerant of drought, coastal conditions and high heat
Size: Height 4-10m x width 4-10m

Gordonia Yunnanensis, or the 'Fried Egg Plant", is a tall, fast-growing evergreen shrub or small tree. (This form is yunnanensis which simply means it is from the Yunnan province in southern China). It has slender, oval, green leaves and bears unusual white, crepey, open-faced flowers with golden yellow stamens throughout winter and spring. It has the largest flowers of the Gordonia genus. They make excellent features and shade trees in small to medium gardens.

Soil: Well drained, slightly acidic soils. Mulch Well
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Does not tolerate high heat or drought.
Size: Height 5m x Width 3m

Fraxinus americana White ash is a hardwood species native to North America. It is a fast-growing, large deciduous tree with nice canopy suitable for a shade cover. The foliage is a combination of dark green on top of the leaf and lighter green underneath. In autumn, leaves turn a range of yellow, orange or bronze autumnal colours. The tree is oval-shaped when young, becoming more rounded with age, with upright spreading branches. White Ash trees have male and female flowers on separate trees and only the female flowers develop into fruits. The tough, elastic wood has a pleasing grain and is used to make tennis racquets, hockey sticks, oars, furniture, interior floors and the Louisville Slugger baseball bat! White ash is suitable as a shade tree in a recreational play area, planted along a street, or used in a children’s, butterfly or native garden.

Soil: Grows best in organically rich, well-drained loamy soil.
Conditions: Performs best growing in full sun and although it prefers six hours of sunlight daily, white ash also tolerates some shade. Established ash trees are relatively drought tolerant.
Size: Height 18-24m x width 18-24m

Nandina Moon Bay is a highly decorative, hardy and compact shrub.The upright foliage displays a range of rainbow colours: from lime green to gold in the warmer months and all the way to vibrant red flushes as the weather cools. Added to the visual display is the tiny white flowers in summer, followed by bird-attracting red berries. Moon Bay is an ideal shrub for mass planting, as a low maintenance border or low hedge. Low water requirements once established in the garden.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Drought, frost, wind and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 1m x width 1m

Morus alba pendula Weeping Mulberry is a densely weeping grafted mulberry standard. Relatively fast growing it creates a waterfall of lush green leaves and pendulous branching that becomes gnarled and twisted as it matures. Flowers are insignificant but are followed by sweet mulberries that may be white and usually ripen through red to black around December. As a weeping standard, the pendulous foliage of this tree makes it a magnificent feature tree or centre-piece to a garden design.

Soil: Deep, fertile, moist loams.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, heat, frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 3m x width 4m

Aloha Pink Star is the only Australian-bred mandevilla on the market that will NOT FADE in the heat of summer! This particular variety produces abundant, sizable hot pink blossoms adorned with distinctive white star patterns at their centres accentuated by a vivid yellow throat. Add colour to your garden with this bold and beautiful flowering vine as the vibrant eye-catching bright pink 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

Liquidambar styraciflua, or American Sweetgum, is a conical-shaped tree which becomes rounded with age. The leaves of the sweetgum are the main attraction of this tree with their star-shaped five points - which change colour to glorious shades of red, orange and purple during autumn. Flowers form in spring followed by spiky, woody, ball-like fruits which hang from the branches. Excellent shade, lawn or park tree. Must be planted in large area with room to grow.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, frost, humid and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 21m x width 10m