Plant Finder

Deciduous upright or spreading shrub (1.5m x 1.5m) from Japan. Narrow leaves. Upright clusters of double white flowers along arching branches in spring. Useful mixed with shrubs for its graceful habit and floral display. Cut out old wood in winter. Moderately drought tolerant.

Evergreen clump forming perennial (0.4m x 0.5m) from Asia. Palmately divided leaves on erect and branching stems. Cup-shaped often pink or rose tinged flowers in winter and early spring. Useful for a groundcover in shaded areas, understorey or in clumps for its flowers. Prefers a shady position with a moist well drained alkaline soil. Drought sensitive.

Masses of pink buds open to the white starry flowers and these are set on a hardy, compact shrub with bright green aromatic foliage. It adapts well to a wide range of environments. This is a great feature shrub that can also be used as a cut flower. Plant it near paths where the pleasant aroma of the foliage will be released as you brush against it. Cut the plant back by 20-30% after flowering to encourage compact growth

Deciduous vigorous twining climber (7m) from China. Compound leaves turning yellow in autumn. Long pendulous racemes of fragrant pea-like lilac or white flowers in early summer. Useful for climbing over a pergola or trained to a standard. Requires strong support. Prune to control wayward growth.

Fantastic hedge plant hardy to Canberra conditions. Plant 75cm apart to create a thick hedge, and prune twice a year. Great alternative for hedging to English box.

Evergreen prostrate suckering groundcover (0.2m x 0.8m) from all states of Australia including ACT. Silver-grey hairy leaves. Clusters of heads of bright yellow flowers in spring and summer. Useful for a rock or perennial garden or mass planting on banks. Drought tolerant.

Burgan (Kunzea ericoides) is regarded as an environmental weed in the ACT and Victoria, and is actively managed by community groups in the ACT.

Woody herb to 2 m high. Stems several to many, hairy to hairless; each stem persisting for 1 or 2 years. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 5–20 cm long, 12–50 mm wide, margins toothed. Flowers white or pale lilac or pale blue, sometimes pinkish outside or on buds, tubular, the tube 5–9 mm long, with 4 spreading lobes each to 8 mm long. Stamens 2. Flower clusters mostly 8–25 cm long, 40–100-flowered. Flowering: spring-summer.

Eucalyptus dalrympleana is a medium-sized to tall tree species of mountain country in far south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia (Mt Lofty Range only) and on upper slopes and plateaus in Tasmania. It is essentially smooth-barked but often with a very short stocking of ± persistent bark on the base of the trunk, and is essentially non-glaucous, having a crown of green lanceolate leaves, axillary clusters of buds, in threes in subsp.

Eucalyptus gunnii, commonly known as cider gum,is a species of small to medium-sized tree endemic to Tasmania. It has mostly smooth bark, lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit. Flowering has been recorded in all months from September to April with peak flowering in December, January and February. Eucalyptus gunnii is a tree that typically grows to a height of 25 m (82 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, mottled, white or grey bark, sometimes with persistent rough bark on the lower trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs.

A small to medium-sized peppermint tree widespread from south of the Glen Morrison and Niangala area of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales through the Southern Tablelands to eastern Victoria, often on poor shallow soils. Among the peppermints, E. dives are notable for the very conspicuous, opposite, ovate, sessile, glaucous juvenile leaves which are, rarely, slightly connate at their bases.

A small to medium-sized woodland tree of central and eastern Victoria, the tablelands of New South Wales and the far south-east of Queensland. It has rough, tessellated grey bark usually extending to the limbs and a glossy green crown and non-glaucous buds and fruit. The form of E. bridgesiana on the western side of the Northern Tablelands has very conspicuous glaucous stems and leaves on saplings to > 2 m tall.

Eucalyptus ovata is a small to medium-sized tree species widespread from Kangaroo Island, the Mt Lofty Range, Fleurieu Peninsula and south-east in South Australia, eastern Tasmania, southern Victoria and the South Coast, Southern Tablelands and South-west slopes of New South Wales north almost to Oberon.

Podolobium alpestre, commonly known as alpine shaggy-pea, is a shrub which is native to south-eastern Australia. The species is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Podolobium. It grows up to 1.3 metres high. The leaves are 10 to 40 mm long, 3 to 10 mm wide. The yellow-orange pea-shaped flowers are produced in terminal or axillary racemes between December and January in the species' native range.

Billy buttons are attractive Australian native plants that are widespread throughout eastern NSW in dry forest, grassland and alpine regions such as Kosciuszko National Park. The golden-yellow globe-shaped flowers are also known as woollyheads. Related to the daisy, billy buttons are an erect herb growing to a height of 50cm.

Correa Annabell is a small shrub that will grow to approximately one metre high. It has olive green leaves and small but prolific pink flowers. Flowering commences in autumn and may continue through winter. Prune for a compact habit, especially if planted in shady sites.

Evergreen small broadly conical tree (6m x 4m). Aromatic leathery oval pointed leaves. Small yellow flowers in spring followed by green turning black fruit. Useful feature, clipped specimen or screen; in the herb garden or container. Protect from wind.

Evergreen slow growing branched palm-like tree with fleshy rhizome (8-12m x 5m) from New Zealand. Rosettes of long strap-shaped leaves at the end of each stem. Mostly unbranched when young. Large open panicles of small fragrant white flowers in autumn. Useful feature for its unusual form. Variable coloured leaf forms available. Drought tolerant.

A small tree ideal for use in small gardens and parks. Long cultivated for it’s magnificent display of semi- double pink flowers in mid-spring, that are mildly fragrant. Glossy, bright green oval leaves. Fertile to well drained soil in full sun or part shade.

Evergreen spreading groundcover with stem suckering at the nodes (0.2m x 1.5m) from NSW, Vic, SA and Tas. Narrow slightly warty thick and sessile leaves. White star-like flowers in spring. Useful as groundcover over banks and to spill over walls. Forms a dense carpet in a sunny spot, but is almost as dense in a partly shaded position.