Plant Finder

This salt tolerant ground-cover is native to arid areas. It has clusters of small, hairy leaves and simple, solitary pink flowers. It is prevalent in low lying heavy, salty soils.

This is a landscape screening tree especially handy for difficult sites. It is more tolerant of humid conditions than other melaluecas. It features large thin leaves, attractive paperbark, and substantial cylindrical flower spikes in summer. This plant is a food source and nesting site for birds.

Naturalised sub tropical South American tree 10-15 metres tall. Magnificent purple flowers in Spring. Deciduous over the dry winter period. Reasonably drought tolerant once established.

An elegant shade tree up to 10m high with long narrow leaves and distinctive 'beaded' seed pods. Usually found along watercourses and prefers clay soils.

Native to arid and semi-arid Australia this rounded green shrub grows to 1.5m and has cheerful yellow flowers from late winter to spring.

Broad Beans are best grown at home because they taste so much better fresh. They are interesting to grow because they grow quite large and in Spring can be harvested daily. They are best planted in rich soil in winter. You can use a trellis or stake the corners of the patch and run some twine around the outside so they can hold each other up.

A drought tolerant plant often subject to over watering. This is a popular cut flower and feature bush. Renowned for its beautiful flowers and scent most roses are pruned annually to promote new growth and flowers. Prone to diseases in the northern climes it is still widely grown across Australia.

A drought tolerant plant often subject to over watering. This is consistently one of the most popular roses in Australia. Renowned as a garden bed bush for its beautiful flowers and scent; most roses are pruned annually to promote new growth and flowers. Prone to diseases in the northern climes it is still widely-grown across Australia.

A drought tolerant plant often subject to over watering. This variety provides color variety and a good bouquet. Renowned for its beautiful flowers and scent most roses are pruned annually to promote new growth and flowers. Prone to diseases in the northern climes it is still widely grown across Australia.

A tufting and spreading perennial with dark green, strap-like leaves, the Paroo Lily is found across a range of habitats in eastern Australia. Because of this natural variation there are many different forms available for sale, growing from 40cm to 100cm in height. Used for ground cover in shade and full sun locations, its features include attractive blue, star-like flowers and mauve, glossy berries. It should be know that the berries are poisonous. This variety has red new growth, hence the name

This is a tough and durable species, widely used in urban landscape plantings as a strappy bed filler. It produces a soft rhizome at its base and an upright clump of green foliage. Once established it will tolerate a wide range of conditions, including dry shade and waterlogged soils. This plant is an egg laying site for butterflies and a habitat plant for frogs.

This is a tough and durable species, widely used in urban landscape plantings as a strappy bed filler. It produces a soft rhizome at its base and an upright clump of green foliage. Once established it will tolerate a wide range of conditions, including dry shade and waterlogged soils. This variety is fine leafed and quite attractive. This plant is an egg laying site for butterflies and a habitat plant for frogs.

An excellent screening tree with glossy yellow to green dense foliage growing to 5m high in a conical shape, and larger with abundant water. It has small white flowers from late spring to summer followed by green fruit maturing to pink tinges. This tree was previously listed as a Syzygium floribunda and is very similar to the Syzygium leuhmannii.

A colorful shrub to 3 metres with a lemon scented leaf and three color foliage, yellow, green and reddish. Normally pruned to 0.5m can also be used for cooking similar to a lemon myrtle.

Slender rush form with fine flowers and seed heads. Although a marsh plant it will withstand periods of drought and is excellent for wetland waste water systems.

Sturdy rush stems with fine flowers and seed heads. Although a marsh plant it will withstand periods of drought and is excellent for wetland waste water systems.

The rhizome is short and covered with dark brown, shiny, fine-tipped scales. The tip of the frond may take root and produce new plantlets. Occurs in a variety of sheltered moist vegetation types in caves, under rock ledges, in crevices, on logs, tree trunks, on stream banks or on rocks above cliffs or waterfalls. Not drought tolerant, it was included in the water feature for the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show 2011.

Autumn ferns in the garden offer beauty throughout the growing season, emerging coppery red in spring, eventually maturing to a bright, glossy, kelly green by summer. This ancient woodland plant thrives in partial or full shade and moist, rich, well-drained, slightly acidic soil. However, autumn fern can tolerate short periods of afternoon sunlight, but won’t perform well in intense heat or prolonged sunlight. It is not drought tolerant, and was included in the water feature at the Melbourne Flower Show 2011.

Rigid clumping perennial herb spreading from short, branched underground stems. Fertile and sterile fronds separate, similar. Young fronds bent over rather than coiled. Midrib remains after segments die. Water plant included in the water feature at the Melbourne Flower Show 2011.

The spikes of tall, bell-shaped blooms is where the coral bells flowers get their name and are just as impressive as the foliage color, blooming in late spring to early summer. There are also late-blooming types available. The flower color varies too, with colors ranging from white and pink to light coral and deep red. Not a drought tolerant plant, used as part of the vertical garden at the Melbourne Flower Show 2011