Plants

Silky Oak

The Silky Oak is the largest of all grevilleas in the world, growing into a grand, fast-growing native tree that easily surpasses 3 meters, frequently reaching majestic heights of 15 to 30 meters. It features a sturdy trunk with deeply furrowed grey bark and an open canopy of large, fern-like dark-green foliage. In late spring, the entire tree puts on a breathtaking show, becoming completely smothered in massive, toothbrush-like golden-orange flower spikes packed with nectar[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Flowers & colour Height: Very Large (>3m)

Silver Banksia

The Silver Banksia is a highly adaptable native shrub or small tree that typically grows between 3 and 7 meters tall in garden settings. It features narrow green leaves with distinctly white, silvery undersides and bears bright lemon-yellow flower cones from late summer to winter. It is an excellent asset for local biodiversity, acting as a vital habitat and food source for native wildlife, and it handles heavy frosts and dry periods with ease. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Silver Princess

The Silver Princess is an iconic, breathtakingly dramatic native tree growing 4 to 8 meters tall, world-renowned for its intensely weeping, minimalist architectural form. Its slender, powdery-white branches droop elegantly all the way to the ground, heavily weighted by massive, pendulous silver buds that open into huge, spectacular, shocking-pink to red flowers tipped with golden pollen in winter. It acts as an absolute showpiece specimen tree that requires full sun and excellent drainage. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Silver Wattle

The Silver Wattle is a fast-growing, robust Australian native tree that easily surpasses 3 meters, often reaching 10 to 30 meters in the wild. It gets its name from its strikingly beautiful, silvery-blue feathery foliage, which contrasts sharply with the massive, sweet-scented clouds of bright yellow flowers it produces in late winter. Due to its size and vigorous root system, it is ideal for large acreage, erosion control, and creating swift windbreaks or shelterbelts. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)

Silver-leaved Mountain Gum

The Silver-leaved Mountain Gum is a highly unusual, weeping native tree growing roughly 4 to 8 meters high, heavily prized globally for its intense foliage color. It remains locked in its juvenile growth phase for life, producing dense rows of large, overlapping, completely circular leaves in an intense powdery silver-white color that are a favorite for cut-flower arrangements. It handles heavy frost and drought with ease, acting as an elite architectural feature plant or deep courtyard container specimen[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Slender Bitter Pea

The Slender Bitter Pea is an upright, woody native shrub growing roughly 1.5 to 2 meters high, featuring narrow, leafless, reed-like green stems that give it a clean, minimalist structural form. In mid-to-late spring, it erupts into a spectacular display of densely clustered yellow, orange, and dark red pea-shaped flowers that line the upright branches. It thrives in dry, rocky, or nutrient-poor soils, serving as an excellent low-maintenance filler plant for native landscapes. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Slender Rice-flower

The Slender Rice-flower is a graceful, upright native shrub growing 50cm to 1 meter high, featuring clean, narrow green leaves arranged neatly along slender red-toned stems. From winter through to summer, it bears highly ornamental, large spherical flower heads composed of dozens of small, tubes of pure-white to soft-pink blossoms that nod elegantly at the branch tips. It loves a well-drained sunny border or light woodland landscape. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Small Grass Tree

The Small Grass Tree is a highly distinctive, trunkless native perennial species that forms a dense, neat tuft of rigid, grass-like bright green blades up to 60cm to 80cm high. In spring and summer, it shoots up multiple short, sturdy unbranched flower spikes topped with highly fragrant, nectar-rich creamy-yellow flower structures. It thrives in well-drained sunny positions or light woodland borders, looking fantastic in feature pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Small-leaved Running Postman

The Small-leaved Running Postman is a delightful, low-growing native groundcover that remains completely flat under 10cm in height but spreads gently to form a dense mat. It features tiny, clover-like trailing green leaves and produces small, bright scarlet-red pea flowers with a distinct yellow eye throughout winter and spring. It looks spectacular trailing over retaining walls, rockeries, or hanging baskets in small spaces[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Small (<30cm)

Snow Gum

The Snow Gum is one of Australias most beautifully iconic trees, growing into a gnarled, characterful frame between 6 and 15 meters tall. It is world-famous for its extraordinarily smooth, white-to-light-grey bark that displays stunning, bright yellow and olive-green streaks after rain, complemented by thick, leathery glossy green leaves. It is completely unfazed by heavy winter frost and freezing winds, serving as an exceptional structural feature or shelterbelt tree. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Snowy River Wattle

This iconic, multi-stemmed shrub typically reaches a height of 3 to 4 meters, making it a brilliant option for a soft privacy screen or windbreak. It features narrow, grey-green foliage and produces a breathtaking mass of fragrant, bright yellow flower clusters from late winter into spring. Native to the Snowy River region, it is exceptionally tough, coping well with heavy frosts, intense heat, and a variety of soil types. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Southern Plains Banksia

This dense, robust, and heavily branched native shrub grows into a large mound between 3 and 4 meters high and wide. It features leathery, wedge-shaped leaves with saw-toothed edges and bears large, striking, golden-yellow flower cylinders from autumn into summer. Its thick, tough growth habit forms an impenetrable windbreak or privacy screen, providing highly secure nesting sites for small native birds. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Spearwood

Spearwood is a tough, woody shrub or small tree that usually grows between 3 and 8 meters high, traditionally valued for its dense, hard timber. It features stiff, curved, grey-green leaves and exhibits distinct, elongated cylinder-shaped yellow flower spikes rather than the typical round balls. It naturally grows on rocky ridges, making it highly drought-resistant and perfectly suited to rocky, exposed, or sloping garden areas. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Spider-net Grevillea

The Spider-net Grevillea is an exceptionally beautiful, airy native shrub growing between 1.5 and 2.5 meters tall. It stands out dramatically for its ultra-fine, delicate, bright green needle-like foliage that creates a soft misty appearance, paired with a magnificent winter-to-spring display of complex, curved, bright pinkish-red spider-like flowers that completely fill the canopy. It requires absolute full sun and sharp drainage, working beautifully as a showy feature[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Spinning Gum

The Spinning Gum is a fascinating, highly unusual native tree growing 4 to 9 meters high, legendary for its juvenile foliage structure. The leaves are completely circular and grow entirely fused around the stem; when they mature and dry out, they snap away and spin freely around the branch in the wind. The entire plant has an intense, powdery blue-grey coloration, making it a highly prized architectural feature tree or a unique asset for cut foliage arrangements. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Flowers & colour Height: Very Large (>3m)

Spiny Saltbush / Hedge Saltbush

Spiny Saltbush is an exceptionally tough, adaptable native evergreen shrub growing 1 to 2 meters high and wide into a dense, interlocking structural mound. It features small, fleshy, wedge-shaped foliage in an intense, shimmering silver-grey color year-round, accented by small red berries in autumn. It is virtually bulletproof, offering unparalleled resistance to extreme drought, severe frost, salt spray, and heavy pruning for low-maintenance hedging. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Spiny-headed Mat-rush

The Spiny-headed Mat-rush is an incredibly tough, architectural native perennial tussock grass forming large, neat clumps of flat, strap-like green leaves up to 1 meter tall. In spring and summer, it produces rigid branched spikes of heavily scented, spiny yellow flower heads that attract native insects. It is virtually bulletproof, handling severe drought, heavy frost, coastal winds, and standing water, perfect for mass planting and erosion control. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Spotted Gum

The Spotted Gum is an iconic, exceptionally tall native timber tree growing well past 3 meters, frequently reaching 15 to 30 meters in garden and park settings. It is widely recognized for its extraordinarily beautiful bark, which continuously sheds in irregular patches to leave a smooth, mottled mosaic of cream, pink, grey, and blue-green craters. It is heavily utilized for establishing large-scale acreage boundaries, windbreaks, and erosion control due to its extreme drought and wind tolerance. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Spreading Eutaxia

The Spreading Eutaxia is a charming, intricately branched native shrub growing between 30cm and 80cm high. In spring, it puts on a spectacular, highly vibrant seasonal show, completely smothering its fine branches in dense clusters of small, bright yellow and copper-red pea-shaped flowers. It handles partial shade from overhanging trees exceptionally well, requires well-drained soil, and serves as an excellent low-maintenance option for native borders or rockeries[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Spreading Homoranthus

The Spreading Homoranthus is an extraordinary, highly architectural native shrub growing roughly 50cm to 80cm high, instantly recognizable by its horizontally layered, flat-topped tiered branches that spread up to a meter wide. It features fine, bluish-grey needle foliage that releases a pleasant scent, topped with dense rows of bright yellow-green flowers with long styles in spring. It adds fantastic modern texture to rockeries or external feature pots[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Spreading Wattle

The Spreading Wattle is a prickly, open shrub growing roughly 1 to 2.5 meters tall, featuring stiff, sharp, needle-like foliage. What makes it special is its unusually early flowering window, producing large, creamy-yellow flower balls from late autumn all the way through winter when little else is blooming. Its spiked nature acts as a safe-haven sanctuary for small native birds like wrens, protecting them from larger predators. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Spurwing Wattle

The Spurwing Wattle is a dense, spreading shrub growing 1.5 to 3 meters tall, easily recognized by its rigid, curved, and sharp-pointed dagger-like leaves that mimic spurs. In spring, it features bright yellow cylindrical flower spikes. Its incredibly dense and prickly growth provides absolute privacy and serves as an important protective habitat where small native birds can nest safely from predators. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Steedman's Gum

Steedman's Gum is an exceptional, highly decorative small tree or mallee growing between 4 and 6 meters tall, making it perfectly scaled for suburban and rural boundaries. It features smooth olive-green bark and develops a dense canopy of glossy green leaves. In summer, it produces highly unique, pendulous clusters of four-winged flower buds that open into exploding spheres of bright yellow blossoms, serving as an unmatched structural focal point that draws in native pollinators[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Sticky Everlasting

The Sticky Everlasting is a tough, erect native perennial herb growing between 40cm and 80cm tall. It features narrow green leaves with a distinct sticky, resinous texture along upright stems, and is celebrated for its long-lasting, profuse spring-to-autumn display of bright golden-yellow bracted paper daisy flowers that attract native butterflies. It thrives in dry, rocky, or nutrient-poor soils in open sun-baked positions. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Sticky Everlasting (Bronze Form)

This beautiful color variation of the Sticky Everlasting shares the same upright, tough footprint of 40cm to 80cm as the parent species. However, it completely distinguishes itself by replacing the standard bright gold blossoms with unique, high-contrast coppery-bronze and warm orange paper-textured daisy heads. It behaves as an outstanding focal choice for dry native cottage borders or rustic courtyard feature pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Sticky Everlasting (White Form)

This highly practical selection of the Sticky Everlasting retains the same resilient, sticky upright growth habit and heat tolerance as its sibling. It distinguishes itself by producing a heavy, highly reliable display of crisp, papery white everlasting flowers with a warm yellow central crown. It provides a beautiful, clean color contrast when mass-planted in dry rocky landscapes, gravel borders, or outdoor containers. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Sticky Wattle

This beautiful, weeping wattle grows as a dense, large shrub or small tree between 3 and 6 meters tall, featuring small, dark green leaves that are sticky to the touch and release a pleasant cinnamon-like scent when crushed. It produces pale yellow, fragrant flowers in spring. Its tight, bushy, weeping form makes it one of the absolute best Australian native plants for creating a formal or informal trimmed privacy hedge. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)

Stony Bush-pea

The Stony Bush-pea is a rare, compact native shrub growing 50cm to 80cm high, naturally correcting the inverted raw file layout. It features small, rigid, crowded oval leaves covered in fine hairs along woody stems. In spring, it puts on a brilliant seasonal show, completely smothering its branches in dense terminal heads of bright golden-yellow and dark reddish-brown pea-shaped flowers, thriving beautifully in dry, stony sunny borders. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Sugar Gum

The Sugar Gum is a fast-growing, tall native timber tree that easily surpasses 3 meters, frequently reaching 15 to 30 meters in height. It features a clean, straight trunk with beautiful, smooth bark that sheds in colorful patches of yellow, orange, and grey, topped with a high, dense canopy of glossy green leaves that have a pale underside. It is exceptionally drought-hardy and wind-resistant, heavily used across larger properties to establish massive shelterbelts and rural windbreaks. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Swamp Banksia

The Swamp Banksia is a structurally dramatic native shrub growing 1.5 to 3 meters tall, instantly recognizable by its massive, leathery, dark-green leaves that can grow up to 30cm long. It produces striking flower spikes that emerge as a deep metallic-green before turning cream and eventually fading to a rich bronze. Unlike most banksias, it is native to waterlogged areas, making it ideal for boggy spots, pond edges, or wet clay soils requiring lots of water. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Lots Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Swamp Billy Buttons

The Swamp Billy Buttons shares the same whimsical, spherical golden-yellow flower structure as its dry-land relatives but is specifically adapted to wet environments, growing 40cm to 80cm tall. It features longer, grass-like green foliage and shoots up robust flower heads throughout summer. Because it originates in boggy wetlands, it is a specialized selection that thrives in poorly drained clay, rain gardens, or pond margins that consistently receive lots of water. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Lots Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Swamp Gum

The Swamp Gum is a fast-growing, hardy native tree that easily surpasses 3 meters, regularly reaching heights of 15 to 25 meters. It develops a smooth grey bark that sheds in long ribbons, paired with large, broad green leaves that have distinctly wavy margins. Uniquely adapted to saturated ground, it thrives in waterlogged clay soils, swampy flats, and drainage lines that receive lots of water, making it a critical choice for rural environmental restoration and windbreaks in wet zones. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Swamp Mallet

The Swamp Mallet is a fast-growing, exceptionally dense small native tree or multi-stemmed mallee growing 4 to 8 meters tall with a neat, tightly rounded canopy. It features beautiful, smooth reddish-brown bark and an incredibly thick crown of ultra-narrow, linear satin-green leaves, bearing delicate clusters of cream flowers in summer. Uniquely adapted to tough environments, it handles waterlogged clay soils requiring lots of water while remaining highly salt-tolerant[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Swamp Myrtle

The Swamp Myrtle is a fast-growing, elegant native evergreen large shrub or small tree growing 3 to 5 meters tall with a graceful, weeping willow-like habit. It features fine, narrow bright green foliage along arching stems, and bears a massive, highly reliable winter-and-spring display of small star-shaped white flowers. Thriving naturally in boggy ground and heavy clay receiving lots of water, it forms an elite visual screen. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Swamp Paperbark

The Swamp Paperbark is a fast-growing, heavily branched native tree growing 3 to 6 meters tall, featuring a gnarled trunk wrapped in thick, creamy-white peeling papery bark and fine green foliage. Uniquely adapted to saturated ground, its robust root system thrives in waterlogged clay, swampy flats, and standing water receiving lots of water, making it a critical choice for environmental restoration, erosion control, and thick wet-zone windbreaks. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Sweet Bursaria

Sweet Bursaria is a tough, upright native shrub or small tree growing 3 to 6 meters high, heavily armed with small thorns along its branches. During mid-to-late summer, it becomes completely blanketed in masses of small, white, intensely sweet-scented flowers that attract an incredible diversity of native butterflies, bees, and predatory wasps. Its thorny canopy offers unparalleled protection for small nesting birds, making it a stellar environmental privacy screen. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Flowers & colour / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)

Sweet Hakea

The Sweet Hakea is a robust, heavily branched native shrub or small tree growing 2.5 to 4 meters high, heavily armed with stiff, sharp, needle-like fan leaves. In winter and spring, it provides a striking visual display as its branches fill with dense clusters of small, sweetly scented white flowers that fill the air with a honey-like fragrance. Its spiny structure acts as an invaluable environmental sanctuary, offering small native birds a secure place to nest safely[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)

Sydney Blue Gum

The Sydney Blue Gum is a tall, remarkably fast-growing native timber tree reaching majestic heights well over 20 meters, featuring a perfectly straight trunk and a high canopy. It displays smooth, blue-grey to powdery-white bark that sheds in long strips, accented by a rough stocking of dark bark at the base. Uniquely adapted to high-moisture environments, it thrives in deep, fertile soils that receive lots of water, making it a critical choice for heavy-duty windbreaks or soil stabilization in wet valley zones[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Sydney Red Gum

The Sydney Red Gum is a magnificent, fast-growing native tree that can surpass heights of 15 to 20 meters, famous for its smooth, strikingly pinkish-orange bark that turns a brilliant rusty-red in summer. It features a grand, twisting architectural branch structure and bursts into huge, creamy-white flower clusters in late spring that act as a magnet for honeyeaters. Given its massive canopy and strong root system, it is ideal as a majestic shade or feature tree for acreage properties. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Flowers & colour Height: Very Large (>3m)

Tasman Flax-lily

The Tasman Flax-lily is the largest and most robust of the flax-lilies, forming a grand, dense structural clump of wide, deep-green leathery leaves up to 1 meter tall. It shoots up large, striking sprays of soft blue flowers in spring, followed by massive, highly decorative oblong violet-blue berries that persist for months. It thrives naturally in cool, moist, deeply shaded positions, making it an excellent option for a low understory privacy boundary or a lush feature inside a shaded pot. Where will it live: Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife / Eating Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Tasmanian Blue Gum

The Tasmanian Blue Gum is an iconic, colossal forest tree that grows well past 3 meters, regularly soaring to heights of 20 to 40 meters or more. It features smooth, ribbons-peeling bark in shades of cream and blue-grey, paired with heavily aromatic foliage that is the primary food source for koalas. It produces large, nectar-rich white blossoms in spring, and because of its massive canopy and vigorous root system, it is strictly suited for large rural properties, timber production, and expansive windbreaks. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Thyme Honey-myrtle (Purple Form)

The purple form of the Thyme Honey-myrtle is a delightful, low-growing native shrub that typically grows 50cm to 1 meter high and wide. It features tiny, oval green leaves that resemble culinary thyme, and bears a near non-stop display of unique, hook-shaped claw flowers in a deep amethyst-purple color from spring to autumn. It handles both dry spells and seasonal waterlogging well, perfect for low borders or outdoor patio pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Tough Rice-flower

The Tough Rice-flower is a hardy, fine-stemmed native understory shrub growing roughly 30cm to 60cm tall, featuring small, narrow green leaves with fine silky hairs beneath. Throughout spring and summer, it produces dense clusters of dainty, curved tubular flowers that transition through shades of greenish-yellow to dark red-brown at the tips of its branches. It prefers a well-drained spot with morning sun or light dappled shade. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

Trailing Podolobium

Trailing Podolobium is a tough, prostrate native shrub that remains under 20cm in height but spreads widely to form an intricately woven mat. It features highly unique, rigid, sharply three-lobed holly-like green leaves that provide excellent architectural texture, paired with a bright spring display of classic yellow-and-red pea-shaped flowers clustered along the trailing stems, perfect for binding sloping banks or rockeries. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Small (<30cm)

Tree Hakea

The Tree Hakea is an attractive, highly reliable small native tree growing between 3 and 5 meters tall, naturally correcting the flipped naming format found in the raw list. It features clean, lance-shaped green leaves and produces smooth, dense clusters of small white-to-pale-pink flowers close to the stems in spring. Its tall, bushy footprint makes it one of the absolute best choices for establishing a low-maintenance privacy screen or windbreak along a fence line[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Tree Violet (Cutting Grown)

The cutting-grown form of the Tree Violet is a robust, rigid native shrub reaching a height of 1.5 to 3 meters, maintaining consistent structural traits from mature selections. It features small green leaves along heavily branched, woody stems that are armed with small spines. In spring, it produces an absolute profusion of tiny, bell-shaped creamy-yellow flowers that emit a powerful, sweet vanilla fragrance, forming a secure bird habitat hedge. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Large (1-3m)

Tree Violet (Seed Grown)

The seed-grown form of the Tree Violet grows into a densely branched, gnarled native shrub between 1.5 and 3 meters tall, displaying natural genetic variation in its form. It features fine green foliage along heavily angled, spiny branches, and bears massive numbers of vanilla-scented cream flowers in spring, followed by attractive purple-blue berries. Its highly defensive, spiked growth habit makes it an elite safe-haven boundary hedge. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Large (1-3m)

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)