Native Australian Plants – Tubestock

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)

Upright Cross-leaf Honey-myrtle

This distinct structural variation of the Cross-leaf Honey-myrtle reaches a height of 2 to 3 meters but completely distinguishes itself by developing a tight, strictly upright, erect, and columnar growth habit. It retains the same mauve-purple seasonal flowers and small opposite leaves, but its narrow vertical footprint makes it vastly superior for establishing tight privacy screens or formal hedges where lateral space is limited. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some 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)

Victorian Christmas Bush

The Victorian Christmas Bush is the largest of all mintbushes, growing into a grand, fast-growing large native shrub or small tree between 3 and 6 meters tall. It features large, lance-shaped dark-green leaves with toothed margins that release a lovely, strong menthol fragrance when crushed. True to its name, around December it puts on a breathtaking show, becoming completely smothered in massive clusters of white orchid-like flowers. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Some Best for: Privacy / Fragrance / Flowers & colour Height: Very Large (>3m)

Violet Coastal Rosemary

Westringia glabra is a highly reliable, fast-growing native shrub growing 1.5 to 2.5 meters high with a neat, dense, and bushy footprint. Unlike its coastal cousins, it features smooth, flat green leaves that lack hairs, and puts on a beautiful seasonal show in spring and summer, producing dense clusters of open tubular violet-to-purple flowers. It trims beautifully, allowing it to be easily shaped into a highly decorative privacy screen. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / 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)

Wallangarra White Gum

The Wallangarra White Gum is a remarkably graceful, slender native tree growing 8 to 15 meters tall, heavily prized for its striking color contrast and elegant weeping form. It develops a perfectly smooth, powdery-white trunk that shimmers in the sun, from which fine, pendulous branches cascade downwards with narrow, glossy green leaves that smell faintly of fresh apples when crushed. It is exceptionally hardy against frost and drought, perfect for an open lawn or boundary screen[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Warby Range Swamp Gum

The Warby Range Swamp Gum is a rare, highly specialized native tree that grows well over 3 meters, typically reaching 8 to 15 meters high. It features a weeping habit with smooth grey bark that sheds in long ribbons, paired with fine green foliage. Uniquely adapted to wet environments, its root system thrives in waterlogged, boggy soils, seepage lines, and heavy clay that receive lots of water, making it a critical choice for local conservation, wetland edges, and low-lying rural paddocks. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Lots Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

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)

Wedge-leaf Hop Bush

The Wedge-leaf Hop Bush is a highly reliable, heavily branched native shrub growing 1.5 to 3 meters high, distinguished by its attractive, wedge-shaped green leaves that have a glossy, slightly sticky texture. It bears small green flowers followed by dense, highly ornamental clusters of bronze-to-ruby-red papery winged seed pods. It handles partial shade from overhanging trees exceptionally well, making it a rugged and versatile option for mid-layer hedging or privacy screens. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Wee Jasper Grevillea

The Wee Jasper Grevillea is a critically endangered, highly resilient native shrub growing roughly 1.5 to 2.5 meters high with a dense, bushy growth habit. It features soft, oval grey-green leaves along upright stems and bears highly decorative, drooping pendant clusters of cream, pink, and greenish-red flowers from winter through to spring. It handles partial shade from overhanging trees exceptionally well, serving as a reliable mid-layer hedge or privacy screen[cite: 23]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

Weeping Darwinia

This fascinating subspecies is a low-growing, spreading native shrub that typically grows 50cm to 1 meter high with an elegantly arching or weeping habit. It features fine, crowded, needle-like grey-green leaves and produces highly distinct, hook-shaped clusters of bright reddish-pink flowers at the branch tips throughout winter and spring. It thrives in well-drained, mulched soils with partial shade, making a highly unique texture addition to low borders or large external 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)

Weeping Snow Gum

The Weeping Snow Gum is a remarkably beautiful, highly graceful native tree growing 6 to 12 meters tall, named for its incredibly distinct, willow-like weeping habit. It develops a strikingly smooth, powdery-white trunk that shimmers in the sun, from which slender, pendulous branches cascade downwards, bearing narrow green foliage. It is exceptionally frost and cold-hardy, serving as a magnificent, high-impact architectural feature tree for open lawns and native landscapes. 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 Box

The White Box is a grand, slow-growing native timber tree that easily surpasses 3 meters, frequently reaching 15 to 25 meters in open landscapes. It features a sturdy, straight trunk with persistent, fibrous grey bark and an open canopy of large, distinctively rounded, powdery blue-grey foliage. In autumn and winter, it produces heavy clusters of creamy-white flowers that act as a primary, vital food supply for native honeyeaters and bees, making it an elite shade or shelterbelt option for larger acreage. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>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 Myrtle / Pink Myrtle

The White Myrtle is a beautiful, fine-textured native shrub growing roughly 60cm to 1 meter tall, prized for its exceptional seasonal qualities. Its narrow, linear green leaves release a refreshing spicy aroma when crushed. In winter and spring, its slender arching branches become completely smothered in dense, stem-hugging clusters of small star-shaped flowers that open white and mature to soft pink, perfect for decorative containers[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Shady spot / Pot outside Watering: Some Best for: Flowers & colour / Fragrance / 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)

White-leaved Mallee

The White-leaved Mallee is a highly unique, small multi-stemmed tree growing 3 to 6 meters tall, famous for its intense foliage contrast. The juvenile foliage is intensely silvery-white, closely crowded, and highly sought-after for floral arrangements, while the adult leaves transition to a glossy green. It yields clusters of small white flowers in summer, loves hot sun and sharp drainage, and functions beautifully as a striking architectural feature plant or a low-maintenance, medium-sized acreage windbreak. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>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)

Wilson's Honey-myrtle / Violet Honey-myrtle

Wilson's Honey-myrtle is a robust, heavily branched native shrub growing 1.5 to 2.5 meters high, featuring narrow, pointed green leaves along arching stems. From winter into spring, it provides a striking visual display as its branches become completely wrapped in dense, stem-hugging clusters of bright magenta-pink to purplish flowers that draw in native birds. It is exceptionally drought-hardy and makes a wonderful privacy screen. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Flowers & colour / Wildlife Height: Large (1-3m)

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 Box

The Yellow Box is a classic, magnificent Australian tree that grows well past 3 meters, frequently reaching 15 to 25 meters tall with a stately, wide-spreading canopy. It features a rough, yellow-brown inner bark that is highly distinctive, and it yields masses of sweetly fragrant cream flowers from spring to summer. These flowers produce what is widely considered the finest, highest-quality honey in Australia, making this exceptionally drought-hardy tree an elite asset for rural properties and wildlife shade. Where will it live: Sunny garden Watering: Minimal Best for: Privacy / Wildlife Height: Very Large (>3m)

Yellow Featherflower

The Yellow Featherflower is an exceptionally vibrant, small native shrub growing 40cm to 80cm tall. It features fine, narrow heather-like green foliage and puts on a spectacular seasonal show from late winter into summer, completely blanketing the canopy in dense, feathery terminal clusters of brilliant bright golden-yellow flowers. It requires absolute full sun and sharp drainage, serving as a high-impact color feature for borders or pots. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Fragrance / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)

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)

Yellow Myrtle

The Yellow Myrtle is a highly unique, compact native shrub growing between 50cm and 80cm high, featuring small, rigid, coarse green leaves along woody stems. Throughout spring, it puts on a brilliant seasonal show, completely smothering its branches in dense, sessile clusters of bright golden-yellow flowers that attract native pollinators. It requires absolute full sun with sharp drainage, providing a beautiful color pop in rockeries or pots[cite: 27]. Where will it live: Sunny garden / Pot outside Watering: Minimal Best for: Flowers & colour / Fragrance / Wildlife Height: Medium (30cm-1m)