Plant Finder

Cheerful flowering perennials often quite hardy and particularly suitable for pots and planters. Geraniums make popular bedding plants in the garden, but they’re also commonly grown indoors or outside in hanging baskets. Growing geranium plants is easy as long as you can give them what they need.

Lemongrass is native to India and tropical Asia. It is widely used as a herb in Asian cuisine. It has a subtle citrus flavor and can be dried and powdered, or used fresh. Lemongrass is commonly used in teas, soups, and curries. It is also suitable for poultry, fish, beef, and seafood.

This popular ornamental flowering shrub is quite drought hardy and can have spectacular flower displays. Despite the name it is not a member of the salvia family.

Graceful pendulous form with small yellow flowers after rains. Hard wood suitable fencing. A range of aboriginal uses including bush tucker, medicine and for spears.

Spreading shrub with many stems up to 4m tall. Aboriginal food source for witchetty grubs in roots.

Desert tolerant Euphorbia with red flowers in image. This is a succulent climbing shrub growing to about 2m tall. Flowers are small,red, pink or white and the sap is poisonous.

A small tree from India and Sri Lanka of 4-6 metres with pinnate leaves used fresh for food seasoning. This plant has significant weed potential.

A bushy shrub with thick grey leaves and stems growing from 1.5 to 3.0 metres. It has limited forage potential for stock and is highly salt tolerant.

A small tree that blooms in creamy white, green and yellow, has blue-green leaves and is not only a source of food, but also a place of shade. This slender mallee grows in height to 7m.

A slim bush or tree about 16m tall. The tree is drought hardy and the timber is commercially valuable and is fungal and termite resistant. The tree has a range of aboriginal uses.

Flowering annuals with an upright form and bright floral displays at the end of strong stems, about 0.5 metres high. Colours range from white to pink, purple, yellow, bronze and everything in between. Flowers come in all shapes and sizes. Chrysanthemums are available everywhere as pot plants. In the garden they are best grown in a cool to mild climate but will grow and flower well into the milder subtropics.

Jonquil Erlicheer has highly fragrant clusters of cream blooms. These are one of the first spring bulbs to flower, often beginning in late winter. Jonquils have a hardy growth habit, are good multipliers and are also strongly fragranced, adding this extra dimension to your garden or pots. Very reliable in warmer climates and good in cooler climates and where Winters become extremely cold.

A herbaceous perennial with purple feathery flower heads in spring. Tolerant of heat and drought.

Quality shade tree often multi trunked with attractive bell shaped pink flowers in summer. The tree has shade, water and food benefits and is a popular street tree in Alice springs

This is a spectacular creeper for warmer climates, flowering in winter. Rapid growing and quite tough it has significant weed potential outside the arid interior.

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. This version has fine phylode like leaves with 3-8 pairs on each stalk.

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. This version has fine phylode like leaves with 3-8 pairs on each stalk.

A perennial bulb they die down in summer and flower in Autumn. Frost and drought tolerant. Weed potential.

An evergreen shrub up to 1.8m with striking foliage and long strings of small white flowers. There are 100s of varieties with thick, leathery, evergreen leaves variegated in red, green, pink, yellow and more! Skin contact can cause eczema and the sap is toxic.

A great medium to large evergreen shade tree with a dense dark green lolly pop shaped canopy and cream flowers. Bird attracting.