Exotics & Ornamentals

Leucospermum Carnival Yellow – a radiant gem for your garden, combining dazzling beauty, robust resilience, and a touch of exotic elegance. Carnival Yellow is a showpiece with its vibrant, sunshine-yellow blooms that resemble pincushions. These eye-catching flowers bloom in spring and summer, creating a spectacular display of colour and texture that is sure to captivate and delight. Whether you're looking to create a bold statement in your garden, add a splash of colour to mixed borders, or establish a unique focal point, Carnival Yellow is your ideal choice. 

Soil: Well-draining native soil
Conditions: Full sun, Light frost, drought and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 1.5m x width 1.5m 

An extremely attractive new introduction, Cercis Merlot is a fantastic small tree that shows off rich purple foliage and an improved branch structure than other varieties of this popular and showy family of trees. Clusters of bright pink flowers smother the bare stems in early spring followed by large and glossy heart-shaped foliage in a rich purple to plum colouring in the summer months, aging to brilliant yellow and orange tonings in autumn. Foliage colour will be at its best in plants grown in full sun. Cercis Merlot is highly adaptable and is more tolerant of warmer climates than many other Cercis forms and prefers deep, well-drained soil and a position in full sun or partial shade. 

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Drought and frost tolerant once established but best results when adequate water is provided during dry periods.
Size: Height 3.5m x Width 4.5m

Meet Carnival Red — the garden’s answer to fireworks with roots. This dense-growing leucospermum turns heads with soft mid-green foliage and an explosion of vivid red pincushion flowers throughout spring. Bright, bold and impossible to ignore, it brings serious colour and texture to garden beds, feature plantings and statement pots alike. Use it as a striking feature shrub, plant en masse for maximum impact, or shape it into a vibrant hedge or border. The nectar-rich blooms are also a magnet for birds and pollinators — and they make exceptional long-lasting cut flowers indoors too.

Soil: Well-drained soil. If you have clay soils, use mounds to plant into to facilitate drainage. Be sure to use a native soil mix when planting. Exotic potting mix or exotic fertiliser will kill them. 
Conditions: Full sun. Coast and drought tolerant. Will tolerate a light frost.
Size: Height 1.5m x width 1.5m

Known for its exceptional autumn foliage, Raywood Claret Ash is the perfect centrepiece for the moderate-to-large garden or a graceful tree to line a laneway, road, or fence line. A popular shade tree, the Claret Ash is a stately, quick-growing, deciduous specimen with dramatic autumn foliage. As the season turns from summer to autumn, the foliage transforms from lush dark green to arresting shades of red, orange, plum, and purple. Raywood will make a splendid accent tree for your landscape.

Soil: Sandy, loamy or clay soils.
Conditions: Prefers full sun. Frost, coastal and drought-tolerant
Size: Height 12m x width 9m