PLANT DIRECTORY

Agastache 'Sweet Lili' (Giant Hyssop) is a tough, long-flowering perennial known for its apricot-pink spikes, fragrant anise-lemon foliage, and drought tolerance, making it ideal for hot, dry gardens, attracting pollinators, and adding colour from summer to winter. It thrives in full sun, well-drained soil, and is versatile for beds, borders, and containers, requiring little maintenance beyond deadheading for more blooms and a winter prune.

Agonis flexuosa 'Burgundy', or Burgundy Willow Myrtle, is a popular Australian native small tree prized for its graceful weeping habit and striking deep burgundy foliage that contrasts beautifully with small white spring flowers, offering year-round colour and interest in gardens as a feature, screen, or windbreak, tolerating sun, coastal conditions, and well-drained soils once established.

Anemone japonica, or Japanese Anemone, is a hardy, late-summer/autumn-flowering perennial known for its graceful, poppy-like white or pink flowers on tall stems, excellent for borders, woodland gardens, and under trees, thriving in partial shade and moist, well-drained soil.

Arthropodium cirratum, known as Renga Renga Lily or New Zealand Rock Lily, is a hardy, clumping evergreen perennial from New Zealand, prized for its lush, strap-like foliage and sprays of delicate white, star-shaped flowers in spring/summer, thriving in coastal spots, part shade, and dry to moist soils, making it a low-maintenance choice for borders and mass plantings.

Backhousia citriodora, or Lemon Myrtle, is a fragrant Australian native tree/shrub known for its intense lemon scent from glossy leaves, used in cooking (teas, desserts, savory dishes), aromatherapy, and as an ornamental plant for screening or feature planting in warm climates. It's rich in citral, making it a popular bush tucker, and features fluffy white flowers in summer that attract pollinators.

Beschorneria yuccoides, or Mexican Lily, is a striking, architectural succulent known for its fountain-like rosette of soft, blue-green, strap-like leaves and dramatic, tall flower spikes with pinkish stems and greenish-pink bell flowers, attracting pollinators. Native to Mexico, this hardy, drought-tolerant plant thrives in full sun, well-drained soil, and suits contemporary, Mediterranean, or coastal gardens, offering a low-maintenance, sculptural element.

Chrysocephalum apiculatum, known as Yellow Buttons or Common Everlasting, is a hardy, native Australian perennial herb famous for its bright yellow, button-like flowers and silvery-green foliage, forming attractive, low-spreading mounds or shrubs ideal for rockeries, borders, and native gardens due to its drought tolerance and low maintenance, blooming spring to autumn and attracting pollinators.

Cotinus coggygria, or Smoke Bush/Tree, is a striking deciduous shrub/small tree known for its airy, smoke-like flower plumes in summer and vibrant foliage that shifts from green to deep purple, bronze, orange, and red in autumn, making it a popular ornamental for its seasonal color and drought tolerance. Hardy and adaptable, it thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, offering a unique texture and rich hues in gardens.

Cota tinctoria, also known as Golden Marguerite or Yellow Chamomile, is a hardy, fragrant perennial in the sunflower family, native to Europe and Asia, grown ornamentally for its bright yellow, daisy-like flowers and ferny foliage, historically valued for producing excellent yellow dyes, and sometimes considered weedy due to its prolific self-seeding.

Deschampsia cespitosa, or Tufted Hair Grass, is a graceful, clump-forming ornamental grass known for its fine, green foliage and airy, silvery-purple flower panicles in summer, adding texture and movement to gardens, thriving in sun or part shade and tolerating various moist to dry soils. Native to many regions, it's a low-maintenance, frost-tolerant perennial used in borders, meadows, and containers for a soft, shimmering effect that lasts through autumn and winter.

Dichondra, or Silver falls, is a fast-growing, evergreen groundcover with small, kidney-shaped leaves, often used as a soft, low-maintenance lawn alternative in sun or part-shade, between pavers, or in hanging baskets, known for its lush green mat and drought tolerance once established, forming a dense carpet that suppresses weeds and provides a fresh texture in gardens.

Dietes grandiflora, or Wild Iris/Fortnight Lily, is a hardy, clumping South African perennial known for its grass-like, sword-shaped leaves and large white iris flowers with yellow and mauve markings, blooming spring through summer. It's a low-maintenance, versatile, drought-tolerant plant ideal for borders, mass plantings, or pots, thriving in full sun to part shade and various soils, including wet conditions.

Eucalyptus pulverulenta, or Silver-leaved Mountain Gum, is a small, hardy Australian native known for its striking silvery-blue, rounded juvenile leaves that it retains into maturity, making it popular for floristry (like the 'Baby Blue' variety). This mallee or small tree produces creamy flowers and large gumnuts, tolerates various soils, and responds well to pruning to maintain its attractive foliage, offering year-round ornamental appeal, drought resistance, and habitat for bees.

Festuca glauca, or Blue Fescue, is a popular, low-maintenance ornamental grass known for its fine, compact mounds of striking blue-grey foliage, adding year-round texture and color contrast to gardens in sunny spots with well-drained soil, perfect for rockeries, borders, and containers, tolerating drought and frost once established.

Gaura lindheimeri, also known as Whirling Butterflies or Lindheimer's Beeblossom, is a hardy perennial celebrated for its airy, butterfly-like white to pink flowers on tall, graceful stems, blooming from spring to autumn in sunny spots with well-drained soil, attracting pollinators, and tolerating heat and drought once established, though some varieties can self-seed readily.

Heuchera 'Palace Purple', or Coral Bells, is a popular, low-mounding perennial known for its large, maple-shaped leaves in deep bronze-purple, creating excellent foliage contrast in gardens, rockeries, or pots, with creamy-white flowers rising on tall spikes in summer, thriving in part shade but tolerating sun in cooler climates if kept moist, and offering rich colour, deer resistance, and ease of care.

Sedum 'Autumn Joy' (Hylotelephium spectabile 'Autumn Joy') is a hardy, low-maintenance succulent perennial famous for its broccoli-like flower heads that transform from chartreuse buds to soft pink, then deep coppery-red, providing late-season colour and attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies to sunny gardens, rockeries, and containers.

The Lemon Scented Tea Tree (Leptospermum petersonii) is a fast-growing Australian native shrub/small tree known for its strong, fresh lemon fragrance from its leaves and stems, used in teas, oils, and cooking, with small white summer flowers attracting pollinators, making it great for hedges, screens, and drought-tolerant gardens, valued for its beauty, scent, and versatility.

Liriope muscari, or Lilyturf/Monkey Grass, is a hardy, clumping evergreen perennial known for its strap-like green leaves and late-summer purple flower spikes, followed by black berries, making it a popular, low-maintenance choice for borders, groundcover, and containers, thriving in sun to shade.

Lomandra longifolia, or Tanika Lomandra, is a tough, native Australian grass forming dense clumps of strap-like leaves, known for its extreme hardiness in full sun or shade, drought, heat, and frost, making it popular for low-maintenance landscaping, ground cover, and erosion control, featuring scented yellow flowers in spring and edible leaf bases traditionally used for weaving.

Myoporum floribundum, or Weeping/Slender Myoporum, is a hardy, fast-growing Australian native shrub known for its distinctive weeping, pendulous branches and narrow leaves, producing profuse, dainty white flowers in spring/summer that look like snow, making it great for difficult, dry, well-drained soils, coastal sites, and bank stabilization due to its excellent drought, frost, and salt tolerance, though it's rare in the wild and threatened in Victoria.

Pennisetum thunbergii, commonly known 'Red Buttons', is a hardy, ornamental grass prized for its compact, clump-forming habit, narrow green foliage turning bronze, and distinctive reddish-purple, feathery flower spikes that appear in summer and fade to straw, adding long-lasting texture to gardens, borders, and containers, tolerating drought and full sun.

Plectranthus argentatus, or Silver Spurflower, is a popular Australian native shrub known for its soft, velvety, silvery-grey foliage and fragrant spikes of small mauve-to-white flowers in autumn, thriving in part-shade to sun, tolerating drought, and offering a great textural contrast in gardens as a groundcover or feature plant, with easy propagation from cuttings.

Poa labillardierei, or Common Tussock-Grass, is a hardy, native Australian perennial grass forming dense blue-green clumps, prized in landscaping for its fine, weeping foliage and airy summer flowerheads, adaptable to various soils but thrives in moist spots, easily grown from seed or division, and low-maintenance with a simple prune.

Pycnosorus globosus (Billy Buttons) care involves full sun, well-draining soil (sandy or loamy), and moderate watering, especially in dry spells, though it's drought-tolerant once established. Key care includes deadheading spent flowers to encourage new blooms and light pruning in summer, with a harder cut-back to ground level in winter if needed for regrowth. They thrive in native gardens, rockeries, and pots, being hardy and low-maintenance.

Salvia azurea, commonly called Blue Sage or Azure Sage, is a hardy, drought-tolerant perennial known for its tall spikes of beautiful sky-blue flowers from summer to autumn, attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies with its nectar-rich blooms and providing structure in garden borders, rockeries, or wildflower meadows. It thrives in full sun, well-drained soil, dying back in winter and regenerating in spring.

Salvia yangii, commonly called Russian Sage, is a tough, drought-tolerant perennial known for its silvery foliage and hazy spikes of blue-violet flowers in summer, attracting pollinators and thriving in full sun with good drainage; it's a vigorous plant previously known as Perovskia atriplicifolia, valued for its airy texture in garden borders and its fragrance, though its crushed leaves aren't for eating.

Stachys byzantina, commonly called Lamb's Ears a hardy perennial known for its soft, velvety, silvery-green leaves that form a dense, spreading groundcover, thriving in full sun and well-drained soil but needing protection from excessive moisture to prevent rot. This drought-tolerant plant produces fuzzy, pinkish-purple flower spikes in summer but is often grown more for its unique texture and foliage than its flowers.

Trachelospermum jasminoides, or Star Jasmine, is a popular, vigorous evergreen climber known for its glossy dark leaves and intensely fragrant, star-shaped white flowers blooming in spring and summer, thriving in sun to part shade with well-drained soil, and versatile for covering walls, fences, or as a groundcover. This low-maintenance plant tolerates various conditions, is drought-tolerant once established, and offers beauty as a climber.

Tradescantia pallida, known as Purple Heart or Purple Queen, is a fast-growing, trailing perennial prized for its vibrant magenta-purple, succulent-like foliage, adding a pop of color as groundcover, in hanging baskets, or containers. Native to Mexico, it's drought-tolerant once established, loves bright light (which intensifies color), and produces small pink flowers in summer. Easy to propagate from cuttings, it's low-maintenance.

Tulbaghia violacea, or Society Garlic, is a hardy, clumping perennial from Southern Africa known for its grass-like foliage and clusters of small, lilac-pink flowers on tall stalks, blooming through warmer months. Its leaves and flowers have a mild garlic scent and are edible, serving as a chive or garlic substitute in cooking, while the plant itself is drought-tolerant, pest-repelling (mosquitoes), and ideal for edging, rockeries, or containers, thriving in full sun and well-drained soil. .

Verbena rigida 'Polaris' is a tough, low-growing perennial popular in Australia for its masses of silvery-lilac flowers, drought tolerance, and ability to attract pollinators, making it ideal for borders, rockeries, or as a weed-suppressing groundcover, thriving in full sun and well-drained soil, though it readily self-seeds and can spread, requiring pruning after flowering.

Veronica perfoliata, commonly known as digger's speedwell, is a common perennial herb found at higher altitudes in south-eastern Australia.It is a low-growing multi-stemmed plant rising from a woody rootstock. It has rounded blue-grey foliage and sprays of intense violet-blue flowers at the end of arching branches.

Vitis coignetiae, or Crimson Glory Vine, is a vigorous, ornamental grape species native to East Asia, prized for its enormous, heart-shaped leaves that turn brilliant reds and golds in autumn, making it excellent for covering walls, arbors, and trellises. It can grow extremely large, requiring ample space or assertive pruning.

Westringia fruticosa, the coastal rosemary or coastal westringia, is a shrub that grows near the coast in eastern Australia. The flowers are white, hairy and have the upper petal divided into two lobes. They also have orange-to-purply spots on their bottom half. This shrub is very tough and grows on cliffs right next to the ocean.