Plant Finder

A small but beautiful drought tolerant plant. This is an evergreen grass with strappy leaves and can remain evergreen and attractive throughout year with little care and feeding. Looks best as a mass planting. Full sun or part shade.

A slow growing palm-like plant with striking architectural foliage. Seeds harmful if eaten. Prefers full sun to part shade.

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 can be used as either a feature or high profile bedding plant. This species originates from southern China. It grows up to 5m tall and has distinctive floppy ends to the segments of each leaf. Initially slow growing it will develop a stout trunk with age. Best in warmer climates with some summer rainfall.

This straw-like tussock grass is native to arid areas of Australia and grows up to 1m in height. Distinct from Cymbopogon citreus (Asian Lemon Grass), this plant also has scented foliage but is more useful as a landscape plant for low water use settings.

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

An ornamental medium sized tree with pendulous branches, large shiny leaves and spectacular displays of large showy white, pink or red flowers. Ideal for home gardens, street and parkscapes.

A stunning small to medium tree with fibrous yellow-orange bark and a profusion of orange-red flowers in the dry season. Bird attracting. Suitable for planting in deep soil on larger properties.

A delicate shrub with green foliage and prominent protruding scarlet flowers. Great for mass woodland plantings. Bird attracting.

A stunning, spreading shrub with grey green foliage and prolific yellow-orange flowers. Great for mass woodland plantings and feature plantings. Bird attracting.

A tough groundcover or small shrub with grey-green leaves and purple flowers.

A stunning low, neat, compact Acacia shrub with delicate foliage and bright yellow flowers. Great for mass woodland plantings.

A handsome tall evergreen conifer. Dark deeply fissured bark and dark green leaves. A good termite resistant species for windbreak and screening in rural properties, park and streetscapes.

Clump forming plant with strappy leaves. Grows best in well drained soils. Ideal plant to use as an edging to planting beds.

A strappy Australian native grass with leaves 60 cm to 80 cm long and 8 mm to 12 mm wide. Flowers are cream coloured and strongly perfumed. It grows in a variety of soil types and is heat and drought tolerant. Looks good when mass planted.

Its spreading habit and glossy foliage make it a most attractive specimen tree and good alternative to the African Mahogany.

A very hardy shade tree with dark green foliage. Masses of small red fruits in late dry season. Bird attracting. Great screening tree.

A medium to large tree with brown boat shaped seed pods. A slow growing neat shade tree for well drained areas. Looks good planted in groups.

A stunning fast growing tree with weeping foliage, crème flowers and orange coloured bark. Bird attracting. Suitable for planting in deep soil on larger properties.

An attractive medium sized tree with shiny dark green foliage and orange fruits.