Clay Wattle
The Clay Wattle is a highly unique, structurally stunning shrub that grows up to 1 to 1.5 meters tall and is highly sought after for modern native garden design. It features flat, wing-like, grey-blue stems that serve the purpose of leaves, with bright yellow flower balls bursting directly out of the center of these "wings" in late winter. It prefers heavy clay or well-drained soils and makes an outstanding architectural statement plant. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Coast Rosemary
The Coast Rosemary is an exceptionally hardy, dense evergreen native shrub reaching a structural height of 1.5 to 2.5 meters with a broad, bushy form. It features tough, dark green lance-shaped leaves with clean white velvety undersides, paired with a reliable year-round display of small star-shaped pure white flowers. It offers unparalleled resistance to harsh coastal winds and dry soils, acting as a premier privacy screening hedge. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Flowers & colour Height: Large (1-3m)
Coast Tussock Grass
Coast Tussock Grass is an ultra-robust, exceptionally structural native perennial grass forming tight, naturally rounded mounds of rigid, fine, needle-like blue-green blades roughly 40cm to 60cm tall. It shoots up dense, clean golden-tan seed heads in summer. Naturally adapted to wind-swept positions, it offers exceptional resilience against harsh salt spray, coastal sands, and severe drought along exposed borders. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Common Rush
The Common Rush is an exceptionally tough, tufted native perennial grass-like plant forming dense, neat clumps of fine, bright-green wire-like stems up to 60cm to 1 meter tall. It produces small, delicate golden-brown seed heads throughout summer. It is a specialized selection that thrives in wet hollows, boggy soils, and rain gardens receiving lots of water, providing excellent erosion control and frog habitat[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Lots Best for: Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Common Tussock Grass
Common Tussock Grass is a magnificent, highly architectural native perennial grass forming large, dense, weeping fountain-like clumps of fine, rough blue-green to silver-grey blades up to 80cm tall. In summer, it shoots up tall, feathery, straw-colored flower plumes that dance gracefully in the breeze. It handles heavy frost and seasonal waterlogging beautifully, serving as an elite structural border or mass-planted soil stabilizer. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Common Wallaby Grass
Common Wallaby Grass is an exceptionally tough, tufted native perennial grass forming dense, neat clumps of fine, bright-green wire-like blades up to 30cm to 50cm tall. Throughout the warmer months, it shoots up dozens of slender upright stems topped with highly distinct, fluffy, white tufted seed heads that resemble tiny wallaby tails. It is an absolute workhorse for binding poor clay soils or establishing low-maintenance native lawns. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Compact Blue Gum
This highly valuable selected variation of the Blue Gum grows into a much shorter, heavily branched, and densely rounded small tree between 5 and 10 meters tall. It retains the intensely aromatic, silvery-blue juvenile foliage and smooth bark of the parent species, but its tight, compact, and low-branching footprint makes it vastly superior for establishing thick, large-scale privacy screens, heavy-duty windbreaks, and effective paddock shelterbelts. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Cross-leaf Honey-myrtle
The Cross-leaf Honey-myrtle is an attractive, densely branched native shrub growing 2 to 3 meters high, featuring small, narrow green leaves arranged in neat, opposite pairs along the stems. Throughout spring and summer, it produces a lovely display of small, mauve-to-purple bottle-brush-like flower spikes that fade to white. It is highly adaptable, handling both dry periods and wet clay soils well to form a reliable screening hedge. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Dense Spear-grass
Dense Spear-grass is a hardy, tufted perennial native grass forming neat clumps around 60cm to 1 meter tall. In spring and summer, it sends up decorative, dense, feathery flower panicles that sway gracefully in the wind and provide valuable seed for native birds and insects. It is incredibly drought and frost-tolerant, thriving in poor, sandy, or rocky soils, and looks fantastic when mass-planted in meadow-style gardens. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Wildlife / Flowers & colour Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Downy Zieria
The Downy Zieria is a charming, dense native shrub growing roughly 50cm to 1 meter high. It features highly ornamental, three-part clover-like grey-green leaves that are covered in fine, velvety hairs, releasing a strong, pleasant aromatic scent when crushed. Throughout spring, it produces loose clusters of small, star-shaped soft pink-to-white flowers. It handles partial shade from overhanging trees beautifully. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Fragrance / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Drooping Sheoak
Growing into a small, rounded tree between 4 and 9 meters tall, the Drooping Sheoak is highly recognizable by its long, heavily weeping, dark-green branchlets. It produces an abundance of large, decorative cones that are an essential food supply for native cockatoos. It is remarkably resilient against coastal winds, heavy frost, severe drought, and poor soils, serving as an exceptional shelterbelt or standalone feature. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Dusky Bush-pea
The Dusky Bush-pea is a slender, upright or sprawling native shrub growing roughly 50cm to 1 meter high, featuring narrow, linear green leaves with downy, silver-white undersides along fine stems. Throughout spring and summer, it produces a lovely display of large, showy terminal clusters of bicolored yellow-and-copper pea flowers surrounded by soft hairy bracts, adding great texture to low native cottage borders. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Dwarf Lilly Pilly
This compact form of the standard Lilly Pilly typically grows to a neat 2 to 3 meters in height, making it far easier to manage in smaller suburban spaces. It maintains dense, glossy dark green foliage, creamy flowers, and small pink edible fruits that attract native birds. It can easily be clipped into a pristine hedge or grown as a structural feature plant in large pots outside. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife / Eating Height: Large (1-3m)
Dwarf Robin Redbreast Bush
This highly practical dwarf selection of the Robin Redbreast Bush grows into a dense, tight, naturally rounded sphere roughly 60cm to 1 meter tall and wide, making it far more manageable than the parent species. It retains the same spectacular, bright orange-scarlet bottle-brush flowers, but its lower, compact footprint makes it an absolute premier choice for low borders, rockeries, or modern courtyard patio containers. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Dwarf Scarlet Kunzea
This highly practical dwarf selection of the Scarlet Kunzea grows into a dense, bushy, rounded mound between 1.5 and 2 meters tall, making it perfectly scaled for suburban gardens. It features soft, narrow aromatic green foliage and produces massive, spectacular bottle-brush-like flowers in a brilliant, glowing crimson-red tipped with gold in spring, acting as an absolute magnet for honeyeaters[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Dwarf Twiggy Myrtle
This highly practical dwarf selection of the Twiggy Myrtle grows into a dense, tight, naturally rounded green dome between 1 to 1.8 meters tall and wide, making it far more manageable than the parent species. It features tiny, glossy dark-green leaves along fine arching stems, and bears a massive, highly reliable summer display of tiny star-shaped white flowers, perfect for tight formal hedges or modern patio containers. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Dwarf Willow Myrtle
This dwarf cultivar of the classic Willow Myrtle forms a beautiful, dense, naturally rounded shrub growing 1 to 1.5 meters tall. It features narrow, red-tipped green leaves that emit a strong, refreshing peppermint scent when crushed. Its tight, structural shape makes it highly popular for low-maintenance landscaping, border planting, or feature pots in hot, coastal, or sunny gardens. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Fragrance Height: Large (1-3m)
Early Black Wattle
A fast-growing tree that grows well past 3 meters, the Early Black Wattle is heavily used for rapid privacy screening and land rehabilitation. It has dark green, glossy, fern-like leaves and dark bark, which beautifully offset the intensely fragrant, bright yellow flower clusters that appear in late winter. It acts as an incredibly important environmental asset, fixing nitrogen into the soil and providing essential habitat for local wildlife. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)
Feather Spear-grass
Living up to its name, Feather Spear-grass is a highly ornamental tufted native grass reaching up to 1 meter in height. It produces remarkably delicate, cloud-like, feathery silver-purple flower heads in spring that break away to tumble across the ground when mature. It adds soft texture, movement, and an airy contrast to sunny garden beds, rockeries, or large external pots while requiring practically no supplemental watering. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)
Firewheel Tree
The Firewheel Tree is one of Australias most spectacularly beautiful subtropical native trees, growing into a stately, narrow pyramidal specimen that easily surpasses 3 meters, regularly reaching 8 to 15 meters in garden settings. It features grand, glossy deep-green lobed leaves, and puts on a breathtaking summer display, producing unique, perfectly circular wheel-like clusters of fiery scarlet-red flowers that sprout along the woody branches. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Flat-leaf Bush-pea
The Flat-leaf Bush-pea is an uncommon, highly attractive native shrub growing 1 to 1.8 meters high, heavily distinguished by its unique, broad, wedge-shaped to heart-shaped blue-green leaves that are tightly paired along the stems. In spring, it erupts into a spectacular display of densely clustered bright yellow and deep crimson-maroon pea flowers at the branch tips, making a wonderful asset for dry, sun-baked landscape borders. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)
Flinders Range Wattle
This attractive, spreading shrub grows about 3 to 5 meters tall and is highly valued for its striking blue-green, narrow foliage and decorative, weeping habit. The new growth often displays a lovely pink or purple tinge at the tips. In winter and early spring, it yields highly fragrant, pale yellow blossoms, making it a rugged yet beautiful selection for windbreaks or privacy screens in dry climates. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife / Fragrance Height: Very Large (>3m)
Forest Oak
The Forest Oak is an elegant, upright tree reaching 5 to 15 meters high, celebrated for its corky bark and drooping, fine weeping foliage that turns a beautiful deep burgundy-bronze color in winter. It produces small woody cones that attract native seed-eating birds like parrots and black cockatoos. It handles partial shade as an understory tree or full sun in well-drained soil, making it a gorgeous ornamental or screening specimen. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)
Fringed Heath-myrtle
The Fringed Heath-myrtle is a charming, low-mounding or cascading native shrub growing roughly 30cm to 60cm high and spreading up to a meter wide. It features tiny, overlapping aromatic green leaves along fine arching stems, and is celebrated for its long-lasting winter display of miniature flowers that open white and mature to a rich crimson-red, blanketed across the canopy. It loves sun-baked rockeries or decorative container pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)