These plants grow successfully on heavy clay to clay loams with minimal water requirements once established. All will grow in full sun positions and tolerate frost.
| Botanical name | Height | Width | Flowering time |
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Acacia acinacea (shrub form) | 1.5m | 2m | Profuse yellow balls in late winter to spring. Variable in form. Shrub form is a good hedge plant and can be pruned hard if required. Part shade or full sun. Shaded positions do not seem to deter it from flowering well. |
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Acacia pendula | Up to 8m | Up to 4m | Yellow balls in spring. Usually erect pendulous tree. Handsome silver-grey foliage. Good feature plant. Full sun. |
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Atriplex nummularia | Up to 3m | 2m | Insignificant flowers. Good foliage and hedge plant. Also fire retardant. Full sun. Hardy. Suitable for low maintenance areas. |
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Atriplex semibaccata | Groundcover | 1m | Insignificant cream flowers. Perennial prostrate groundcover. 1cm length leaf, greenish above, mealy white underside. 4-6mm diamond shaped red berries summer-autumn. |
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Callistemon brachyandrus | 3m | 1-2m | Red brushes, yellow tips in spring to summer. Upright dense shrub. Terete pointed leaves. Good dry-tolerant bottlebrush. Often enjoyed by finches and wrens for nesting. |
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Dianella revoluta var revoluta | Groundcover 60cm | 1m | Purple flowers in late spring to summer. Delicate purple flowers on stems above foliage, followed by purple berries. Dense erect tufted plant. Grows well at the base of large established trees. Part shade to full sun. |
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Enchylaena tomentosa | Groundcover up to 30cm | 1m | Variable perennial shrub. Bright berries (4-6mm) from yellow to red throughout the year (mainly summer-autumn). Will grow in part shade (base of trees) and sun. Frost tolerant groundcover. Good foliage contrast. |
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Eremophila alternifolia | Up to 2m | 1.5m | Deep pink flowers in summer. Terete leaves. |
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Eremophila bignoniiflora x polyclada | 2.5 | 2.5 | White to cream, mauve-flecked flowers. Mainly summer. Tolerant of heavy clays. |
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Eremophila divaricata | 1.5m | 2m | Mauve flowers in summer. Complex shrub. Good for clay soils – indigenous to area. |
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Eremophila glabra | Groundcover | 1.5m | Yellow flowers in summer. Hardy groundcover with bright green leaves. Tubular flowers. Some forms also suitable as a shrub. |
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Eremophila laanii (pink form) | 2m | 2m | Profuse pink flowers in spring to summer. Tangled shrub. |
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Eremophila maculata (various forms) | | | Yellow to red to purple flowers. Hardy. |
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Eremophila maculata ssp brevifolia | 1m | 1m | Profuse tubular hot-pink flowers in winter. Green ovate, small leaves. |
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Eremophila oppositifolia | 3m | 2m | Profuse lemon and mauve flowers in spring to summer. |
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Eremophila subfloccosa | Groundcover 60cm | 2m | Green to yellow tubular flowers in summer. Woolly grey excellent foliage plant. Hardy spreading shrub. |
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Eucalyptus leucoxylon 'Rosea' | 5-10m | Up to 4m | Profuse deep pink flowers in autumn. Bird attracting tree. Green leaves. Full sun or part shade. |
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Eucalyptus sideroxylon | 15m | 4m | Cream or pink flowers in winter to spring. Erect tree, grey leaves. Deep furrowed dark brown-black bark with single trunk, making this a good feature plant. Full sun. |
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Hakea laurina | 3-4 | 2-3 | Unique red and cream pincushion flowers in autumn to winter. Grows as a shrub or small tree. |
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Melaleuca lanceolata | 5m | 4m | Cream brushes in spring or summer. Large shrub to bushy tree. Good windbreak or screen plant. |
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Melaleuca pulchella | 1m | 1m | Unique mauve claw flowers in clusters in spring. Needs enough moisture to flower well, but will otherwise tolerate dry conditions. |
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Melaleuca wilsonii | 1m | 2m | Hot-pink (or red to purple) flowers in spring. Spreading shrub. Clusters of flowers along stems. |
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Myoporum parvifolium | Groundcover 30cm | 3m | Profuse white flowers in spring to summer. Attracts butterflies. Will spread and sucker. Good for low maintenance areas and embankments. Dark green, thick small oblong leaves. |
