Cushion Bush makes an interesting landscape feature with its unique textural form. This is a bushy coastal shrub across Australia up to 75cm high and 90cm across. The stems are branched, thin and silvery/white in colour with tiny invisible leaves. Its flowers are round, creamy white--sometimes purple--and appear in summer. This plant is suitable for extreme coastal locations.
- Type
- Native
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Minimal
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Small shrubs 0.5 - 3 metres
- Root size
- Less than 2.5m (safe)
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Tolerances
- Wind, Salt
- Regions
- Yarra Valley Water plants, Westernport Water (for drains and easements)
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Summer
- Colours
- Green, White
- Gardens
- Native