Natives

Callistemon Taree Pink is an easy-care native with a compact habit, fresh lime-green foliage and spectacular, brilliant pink bottle-brush flowers. Flowers appear year-round with a heavy flush during spring. Like most callistemon, they attract nectar-feeding birds and insects to your garden. Prune after flowering to promote another flush of colour and feed with a slow-release native fertiliser yearly.

Soil: Moist, well-drained soils are best.
Conditions: Choose a sunny location though a little shade throughout the day will be well tolerated - too much shade will encourage it to become sparse and rangy. Drought, frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 3m x width 2.5m

Banksia Honey Pots is an attractive, native dwarf shrub producing long slender golden cylindrical flowers from autumn to spring, with a glorious fragrance of honey. The native flowers attract birds, bees and butterflies to the garden. Plant Honey Pots in coastal gardens, wildlife gardens, rockeries, and pots and containers. Prune as required after flowering to maintain dense growth. Feed with a slow-release native fertiliser during spring

Soil: Light, well-drained soil. Suits acid to mildly alkaline soils.
Conditions: Sunny position. Light frost, salt and coastal tolerant
Size: Height 0.80-1m x width 0.80-1m

Brachyscome White Bliss is a gorgeous native ground cover with fine, delicate green foliage. White daisy-like flowers appear in spring, and sporadically throughout the year. It is attractive in terraces and embankments and perfect for rockeries, pots and hanging baskets. Brachyscome makes a great soil stabiliser as it is quite hardy and very easy to grow.

Soil: Tolerates most soil types and planting conditions.
Conditions: Plant in full sun to dappled shade. Frost, heat and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 0.15-0.20m x width 030-0.40m

Lomandra grasses have become an Australian garden staple thanks to their dense growth, compact foliage, excellent landscape performance, and reliability. With soft, fine, lime-green leaves and charming small yellow flowers that appear in spring, Misty Green is a standout variety ideal for modern gardens. This versatile plant works beautifully in landscaped beds, borders, or mixed plantings, and also performs well as a feature plant or in mass plantings. Extremely hardy and low maintenance, it tolerates both frost and drought, making it a dependable choice for a wide range of Australian garden conditions.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Frost, drought and coastal hardy.
Size: Height 0.50m x width 0.50m

The winter flowering daphne is Daphne Odora, a fragrant low-growing plant and the most popular of all daphnes. Both pink and white flowering varieties are available, and this is regarded as the best winter flowering shrub of all. It's rosy/pink buds open to reveal splendid, waxy, white to pink to purple flowers that have a heavenly fragrance. They grow well in the garden and can also be grown in pots. This plant hates root disturbance so choose the spot carefully and plant it young. Feed with a light sprinkling of blood and bone every two or three months in the growing/flowering season.

Soil: Daphne like a humus-rich, well-drained, acidic soil. If you have heavy clay soil, add compost or bark before planting to help with drainage.
Conditions: Full sun to light shade that has protection from the hot afternoon sun. Best in cool to temperate climates - frost tender.
Size: Height 1.5m x width 0.8m