Twiggy Bush-pea
The Twiggy Bush-pea is a tough, rigid, intricately branched native shrub growing roughly 1 to 2 meters high, featuring small, wedge-shaped blue-green leaves that are folded backwards. Throughout spring, it produces a spectacular, highly vibrant seasonal show, completely packing its fine branches in dense, stem-hugging clusters of bright yellow and copper-orange pea flowers that act as a primary food supply for local native bees. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Twisted Honey-myrtle
The Twisted Honey-myrtle is an exceptional, upright native shrub growing between 2 and 3 meters tall, featuring long, narrow, cylindrical needle-like leaves that are uniquely curved or twisted. In spring and summer, it produces dense, globular clusters of cream, white, or soft pink flowers that line the upright branches. It thrives in low-lying drainage lines, boggy soils, and heavy clay that receive lots of water, creating a thick screen. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Varnish Wattle
This hardy shrub grows between 2 and 3.5 meters high and gets its name from the glossy, shiny, "varnished" appearance of its green leaves, which can release a pleasant resinous aroma on hot days. It produces bright yellow flower spheres in spring and handles partial shade far better than most other wattle species, making it a reliable understory filler. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Violet Honey-myrtle
The Violet Honey-myrtle is a charming, highly structural small shrub growing roughly 50cm to 80cm high, instantly recognized by its horizontally layered, flat-topped tiered branches that spread widely up to a meter across. Throughout spring, it puts on a brilliant seasonal show, completely smothering its rigid branches in dense clusters of small, bright purple-to-violet flowers, perfect for adding texture to rockeries or pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Violet Kunzea
The Violet Kunzea is a tough, intricately branched native shrub growing roughly 50cm to 1 meter high, featuring tiny, crowded heath-like leaves along fine stems. In spring, it puts on a spectacular seasonal show, completely smothering its branches in dense, globular heads of vibrant violet-pink flowers with gold-tipped stamens. It thrives in dry, gravelly or shallow clay soils in full sun, attracting an abundance of native bees and butterflies. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Warty Hakea
The Warty Hakea is a tough, rigid native shrub growing 1.5 to 2.5 meters high with a dense, sprawling growth habit. It features sharp, cylindrical needle leaves and produces distinct clusters of pendulous white-to-deep-pink flowers along its stems in winter, followed by highly distinct, rough warty woody seed capsules. It handles poor gravelly soils and severe drought with ease, working beautifully as a defensive medium barrier[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Water Bush
The Water Bush is an exceptionally robust, fast-growing native shrub growing 3 to 5 meters tall with a dense, rounded, and bushy footprint. It features clean, smooth lance-shaped green leaves along reddish stems and produces small white flowers with purple spots in winter, followed by bird-attracting purple fruit. It offers unparalleled resistance to extreme summer heat, severe drought, and heavy frost, making a stellar boundary screen. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Wavy-leaved Thomasia
The Wavy-leaved Thomasia is a charming, small native shrub growing roughly 40cm to 80cm high, featuring highly distinct, soft oval green leaves with beautifully crinkled, wavy margins. Throughout winter and spring, it produces a lovely display of nodding, bell-shaped paper-textured pinkish-purple flowers that hang elegantly along its fine stems. It handles partial shade from overhanging trees exceptionally well in borders or pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Weeping Myall
The Weeping Myall is a striking, slow-growing tree reaching 5 to 11 meters tall, globally recognized for its intensely silver-grey foliage and elegantly weeping branches. It produces sparse, pale yellow flowers in summer, but its main value is its incredible visual beauty and extreme drought tolerance. It is a perfect choice for hot, dry, inland climates where it can be used as a magnificent standalone feature tree. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Western Silver Wattle
Growing to a height of 1.5 to 3 meters, this hardy shrub is noted for its bluish-grey, narrow foliage and arching habit. In spring, it is laden with long, showy sprays of bright golden-yellow flower balls that attract a myriad of native bees and insects. It is exceptionally drought-hardy and thrives in hot, sunny spots with well-drained, heavier soils. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
White Cedar
The White Cedar is one of Australia's few truly deciduous native trees, growing into a magnificent specimen that easily surpasses 3 meters, regularly reaching 10 to 15 meters high with a wide, umbrella-like canopy. In spring, it fills with large clusters of highly fragrant, lilac-and-white star flowers followed by decorative golden beads, providing deep summer shade before dropping its fern-like leaves in winter to let the sun through. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
White Cut-leaf Daisy
This elegant white-flowering variation of the Cut-leaf Daisy shares the same soft, low-mounding, feathery green foliage as the parent plant, reaching a height of roughly 30cm to 40cm. It provides a crisp, bright contrast in the garden by producing massed displays of pure white daisy flowers for most of the year. It works exceptionally well to lighten up rockeries, border paths, or grouped arrangements in decorative patio pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
White-flowered Hakea
The White-flowered Hakea is an uncommon, highly attractive native shrub growing 1.5 to 2.5 meters high, heavily distinguished by its large, thick, leathery grey-green leaves with prominent, raised structural veins. In winter, it bears highly dense, showy clusters of soft white-to-cream flowers that pop dramatically against the structural backdrop. It handles dry, rocky, or nutrient-poor soils with ease, forming a tough mid-layer hedge[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Willow Needlewood
The Willow Needlewood is a highly graceful, weeping native shrub or small tree growing 3 to 5 meters tall, named for its incredibly distinct, willow-like pendulous habit. From its slender, arching branches cascade downwards fine, needle-like green foliage, which fills with massed clusters of small, delicate white star-shaped flowers throughout spring. It provides a beautiful, soft visual texture and works beautifully as a quick visual screen[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Willow-leaved Hakea
The Willow-leaved Hakea is a fast-growing, erect native tree growing between 3 and 6 meters tall, featuring clean, flat lance-shaped leaves that emerge a beautiful coppery-bronze color before maturing to green. In spring, it produces cascading clusters of small white flowers. Its dense, upright, and bushy growth footprint makes it one of the absolute best native plants for establishing a quick, thick visual privacy screen along a fence line[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Woolly Tea-tree
The Woolly Tea-tree is an exceptionally hardy, dense native tree growing 3 to 5 meters high, instantly recognized by its small, silver-grey oval foliage covered in a soft, downy woolly coat. In spring and summer, the entire canopy becomes completely blanketed in a massive, spectacular cloud of white blossoms. It excels in waterlogged clay, poorly drained flats, and pond margins receiving lots of water, creating an impenetrable windbreak. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Wyalong Wattle
The upright form of the Wyalong Wattle is an elegant, feathery shrub or small tree growing up to 3 to 4 meters tall. It features tiny, heart-shaped leaflets along weeping branches and produces a brilliant cloud of bright yellow flowers in spring. Its dense, soft growth habit makes it a great choice for a privacy screen, and its early blooms are highly attractive to local birdlife. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Yellow Mountain Grevillea
The yellow form of the Mountain Grevillea forms a tidy, naturally rounded sphere roughly 60cm to 1 meter tall and wide. It is heavily celebrated for its long-lasting, profuse winter display of curved, tubular soft lemon-yellow flowers that blanket the canopy. It behaves as an outstanding low-maintenance color feature plant for sunny garden borders, thriving in poor, sandy, or gravelly soils with sharp drainage[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)