Myoporum

Myoporum parvifolium Broad Leaf Pink is a fast-growing ground cover that creates a dense mat of broad, glossy green foliage. In spring and summer, it produces small, waxy, honey-scented pink flowers along the stems, providing a charming and fragrant addition to your garden. Perfect for suppressing weeds, stabilizing slopes and banks, or as a fire-retardant option in coastal and low-maintenance landscapes.

Soil: Suitable for clay, loam, sandy, and well-drained soils.
Conditions: Full sun to semi-shade. Drought, heat, frost, and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height <15cm x Width 60cm–1m.

Myoporum parvifolia Pink Fine Leaf is a native, low-maintenance groundcover with delicate, fine green foliage and masses of tiny pink flowers in spring and summer. It effectively suppresses weeds, making it suitable for bank stabilisation and coastal areas. Myoporum Pink Fine Leaf  is a low-maintenance, resilient choice for slopes, garden borders, and mass plantings, creating a lush and attractive ground cover.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade, coastal and drought tolerant
Size: Height 15-30cm x width 1-2m

Myoporum parvifolium Creeping Boobialla is a dense native ground-cover that forms a thick mat of fine foliage, dotted with white flowers in spring-autumn or winter-summer, depending on where you live. Great as a ground cover, spilling over embankments and helping to control weeds in hard-to-reach places. Prune yearly to encourage new growth and flowering. Feed with a controlled release native fertiliser once a year.

Soil: Plant in free-draining soil rich in organic matter.
Conditions: Prefers a full sun position. Coastal, frost and drought hardy.
Size: Height 15-30cm x width 3m

Myoporium parvifolium Yareena is a quick-growing evergreen ground cover. Delicate-looking with a fresh, green foliage, the semi-succulent leaves are narrow and thick. The white tubular flower clusters are honey-scented through late spring to early summer, followed by globular berries. This attractive native plant is ideal for filling gaps, under-planting, cascading down embankments or trailing over retaining walls and raised garden beds.

Soil: Yarenna will grow in almost any soil including inland clays and heavy soils as long as they are well drained.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Drought, heat, frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 0.10m x width 1m

Myoporum parvifolium Purpurea is an easy-care ground cover which creates a dense mat of fine-leaved foliage with purple-toned new growth. Delicate white flowers are produced in spring through summer, providing a lovely colour contrast. Great to deter weed growth, cover slopes and banks, and a lawn substitute for low-traffic places.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, heat, wind, frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 0.30m x width 3m

Myoporum insulare Prostrate, or Boobialla (also known as Native Juniper or Coastal Boobialla), is a native, fruit-bearing groundcover. This species produces small white flowers as the weather heats up - in warmer areas of Australia, it’s not unusual to experience a long flowering season - with fruit following shortly after. As summer ends, Boobialla produces small, round, purple fruits with an astringent sweetness. They’re great for jams, jellies and preserves. This fast grower bears smooth, green, spatula-shaped leaves with toothed edges near the tip. Even when creeping, it takes on a bushy appearance, making it perfect as a rockery plant, for filling gaps or for smothering out weeds. Boobialla is hardy and can adapt to many climates, though it may lose its lustre and drop its leaves when exposed to frost. It’s been known to recover quickly in the spring, after pruning.

Soil: It does best in an easily draining, sandy soil
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, salt, coastal and light frost tolerant.
Size: Height 0.50m x width 1-2m

Myoporum is a native, low-maintenance groundcover with glossy green leaves that effectively suppresses weeds. This prostrate shrub features small, lightly honey-scented, and waxy white flowers along its stems in spring and summer. Fast-growing and low-maintenance, Myoporum is well-suited for bank stabilization, fire retardant, and coastal areas.

Soil: Any, Clay, Loam, Sandy, Well Drained
Conditions: Full sun to part shade
Size: Height <15cm x Width 60cm-1m

Myoporum parvifolium Fine Leaf is a dense prostrate native ground cover with soft fine green foliage and masses of white flowers from late spring to early autumn. Great as a ground cover, spilling over embankments and helping to control weeds in hard-to-reach places. Prune yearly to encourage new growth and flowering. Feed with a controlled-release native fertiliser once a year.

Soil: Plant in free-draining soil rich in organic matter.
Conditions: Prefers a full sun position. Coastal, frost and drought hardy.
Size: Height 15-30cm x width 3m