Albany Woollybush
The Albany Woollybush is a beautiful, rounded shrub growing 1.5 to 2.5 meters tall, renowned for its incredibly soft, silvery-green, velvet-like foliage that begs to be touched. It produces small, subtle red flowers throughout the year that are a favorite for nectar-feeding birds. It requires exceptionally well-drained soil, thrives in full sun, and looks stunning as a soft texture contrast plant or in large patio pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Alpine Mintbush
The Alpine Mintbush is a beautiful, dense, naturally rounded native shrub growing roughly 50cm to 1 meter high and wide. It features small, thick, wedge-shaped glossy green leaves that release a powerful, clean culinary-mint scent when touched, topped with a heavy summer display of large open-bell white flowers heavily flecked with purple and yellow throats. It is exceptionally frost-hardy, thriving in rockeries or patio pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Fragrance / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Austral Indigo
The Austral Indigo is a graceful, open-branched native understory shrub growing between 1.5 and 2 meters tall. It features highly ornamental, blue-green pinnate foliage that gives the plant a soft, feathery texture, complemented by a gorgeous spring display of long sprays of soft mauve-pink pea flowers that look like miniature wisteria. It handles partial shade from overhanging trees exceptionally well in any native landscape[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Bent-leaf Wattle
The Bent-leaf Wattle is a small, compact, and spreading shrub usually reaching about 1 to 1.5 meters in height. It gets its name from its small, narrow leaves that have a characteristic bend near the base. From winter to spring, it produces subtle but lovely pale yellow flowers close to the stems. It is extremely drought-tolerant and ideal for filling out lower layers in a native garden bed. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Berry Saltbush
Berry Saltbush is a low-growing, mat-forming groundcover that remains well under 30cm in height but spreads widely up to 1.5 meters across. It features small, oblong, grey-green leaves and produces tiny, bright red fleshy berries that are an excellent food source for ground-dwelling native birds and lizards. It is an exceptional choice for stabilizing soil, binding steep embankments, or suppressing weeds in hot, dry, neglected spaces. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Wildlife Height: Small (<30cm)
Bicolored Mountain Grevillea
This highly popular variation of the Mountain Grevillea grows into a dense, sprawling shrub around 50cm to 80cm high, featuring a striking bicolored flower structure. The individual blossoms are a vivid, high-contrast mix of bright scarlet-red and glowing canary-yellow from late autumn through to spring. It provides a beautiful, native-bee-attracting color pop in any dry, sun-baked landscape or courtyard arrangement[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Billy Buttons
Billy Buttons are iconic, highly whimsical native perennial herbs forming a basal clump of narrow, silver-grey woolly leaves under 30cm in height. Throughout spring and summer, they shoot up long, slender unbranched stems up to 60cm tall, each topped with a single, perfectly spherical, head-sized bright golden-yellow flower ball. They are a world favorite for cut flower arrangements, thriving beautifully in low borders or pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Black Sheoak
The Black Sheoak is an incredibly tough, upright native tree growing 5 to 10 meters high, showing off dark, deeply fissured bark and fine, dark-green needle-like foliage that creates a relaxing, whispering sound in the wind. Female trees produce small woody cones, which are an absolutely vital food source for native cockatoos and parrots. It is extremely drought, frost, and wind-hardy, making it a stellar structural choice for large boundaries and windbreaks. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Black Wattle
The Black Wattle is a very fast-growing tree reaching heights well over 6 to 15 meters, characterized by its rough, dark bark and feathery olive-green foliage. It produces large, intensely sweet-scented pale yellow flowers in late spring and early summer. It is heavily utilized for quick shade, shelterbelts, and soil erosion control on larger properties due to its vigorous growth and ability to thrive in poor soils. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)
Blackwood
Blackwood is a magnificent, long-lived timber tree that can grow from 10 to over 20 meters tall depending on rainfall, forming a dense, rounded canopy. It features tough, dark green leaves and pale cream flower balls in spring, and it is highly prized for its beautiful, high-quality furniture wood. It is an excellent, deep-shade tree for large gardens or parks, tolerating both wet conditions and moderate drought. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Bower Wattle
Famous for its weepingly elegant, lime-green, narrow foliage, the Bower Wattle can grow into a beautiful small tree or large privacy screen up to 5 to 8 meters tall. While it does produce pale yellow blossoms in spring, it is primarily grown for its stunning, graceful architectural form. It handles partial shade better than many other wattles but does appreciate well-drained soil and occasional watering during extended dry periods. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Box-leaf Wattle
Aptly named for its small, neat leaves that resemble a box hedge, this attractive upright shrub grows around 1.5 to 3 meters tall. It becomes completely smothered in deep golden-yellow flower balls from mid-winter to summer, putting on a highly reliable seasonal show. It is incredibly resilient to drought, poor soils, and moderate frost, making it ideal for low-maintenance native gardens. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Bracelet Honey-myrtle
The Bracelet Honey-myrtle is a robust, remarkably fast-growing native large shrub or small tree growing 4 to 7 meters tall with a dense, fine-textured weeping canopy. It features ultra-fine, narrow needle-like dark-green leaves and bears an absolute profusion of cylindrical white bottle-brush flower spikes in spring and summer. It offers unparalleled resistance to harsh coastal winds, poor soils, and severe drought, making it an elite privacy hedge. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Bristly Wallaby Grass
Bristly Wallaby Grass is a highly practical, low-growing native perennial grass forming a tight, compact mound of ultra-fine, bristle-like grey-green blades under 30cm tall. In summer, it shoots up delicate, airy flower plumes that mature into small, furry white tufted seed structures. It behaves as an outstanding low-maintenance choice for dry, nutrient-poor sandy or gravelly soils where other grasses struggle to establish. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Brown-back Wallaby Grass
Brown-back Wallaby Grass is a robust, highly resilient native perennial grass forming neat, upright structural clumps of smooth, flat blue-green blades up to 40cm to 70cm tall. It produces dense, fluffy tufted seed capsules close to the tips in summer that show a distinctive pale brown-to-copper backing. It handles heavy clay and seasonally damp soils exceptionally well, providing high-quality environmental habitat. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Bulbine Lily
The Bulbine Lily is a lovely, tufted succulent perennial herb that forms small clumps of fleshy, onion-like green leaves up to 60cm tall. In spring and summer, it shoots up upright spikes topped with bright yellow, star-shaped fragrant flowers that are a magnet for native bees and butterflies. It features an edible bulbous root historically used as a food source, and it looks beautiful massed in native cottage gardens or kept in sunny pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife / Eating Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Buloke
The Buloke is a starkly beautiful, slow-growing native tree that reaches heights well over 3 meters, featuring slender, grey-green needle-like branchlets. It is highly significant as a critical food source and habitat for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. Exceptionally rugged, it thrives in tough clay soils and extremely dry climates, making it an excellent long-lived option for rural properties, windbreaks, and shade. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Chinchilla Wattle
The Chinchilla Wattle is an uncommon, dwarf species that generally grows as a neat, rounded shrub between 1 and 1.5 meters tall. It features beautiful, fine, blue-grey feathery foliage that offers great texture contrast in a garden even when it isn't blooming. In spring, it produces large numbers of bright yellow flower heads, making it a perfect feature plant for smaller gardens or large external pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Chonky Bush-pea
The Chonky Bush-pea is a rugged, highly distinctive native understory shrub growing roughly 30cm to 60cm high with a dense, spreading mound habit. It features highly distinct, rigid, sharply pointed triangular leaves that look like tiny arrowheads along its stems, topped with pairs of bright yellow-orange and crimson pea blossoms packed tightly along the branches in spring to attract native bees and butterflies. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)