With its striking golden foliage this versatile plant is a favourite for many. An ideal choice for low and clipped hedges or borders. Also provides great colour contrast in your beds.
Highly recommended as a fast growing hedge plant, this scrambling shrub is also often used as a framework plant in flower beds. Expect a lively concert from honey bees and birds as they come to feast on the nectar.
A very popular tree due to its versatility to withstand the harsh conditions of the urban environment. It is indigenous, evergreen and fast growing and makes an excellent choice for screening off neighbours to create instant privacy in the garden.
An evergreen conifer with densely packed foliage. It is a fast grower and often used as Christmas trees or to form wind breaks or screens in the garden.
This popular ornamental, evergreen shrub with its thick, dark green leaves and extremely fragrant white flowers that bloom for large parts of the year, is a treat for every shaded garden.
Senecio cineraria is best known for its leaves, rather than its flowers. These exquisite leaves are silver and soft and fuzzy to the touch, with a lace-like appearance.
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A very popular tree due to its versatility to withstand the harsh conditions of the urban environment. It is indigenous, evergreen and fast growing and makes an excellent choice for screening off neighbours to create instant privacy in the garden.
This restio makes an attractive garden plant, and can be used for thatching. Elegia tectorum has an upright, symmetrical, tufted reed-like appearance with thin, dark green stems topped with dark brown flowers in slender compact spikes in autumn.
The 'Grande' version of the spekboom has slightly larger leaves than the rest of its family. This versatile plant is considered by many to be a miracle plant and is highly regarded for its ability to fight climate change. This plant acts like a carbon sponge and statistics indicate that a spekboom thicket is 10 times more effective per hectare in carbon fighting than any rainforest
This prolific grower, lends itself to marvellous formal applications such as shaped balls, and clipped hedges. The silver-grey foliage makes a statement from afar and this plant should not be overlooked when planning a drought resistant garden.
A fast-growing shrub with purple-bronze foliage in winter, and cream-red papery-like seeds that provides fantastic contrast in the garden. Very suitable as a hedge, windbreak or screen.
A beautiful evergreen shrub, blooming almost all year round with a lovely display of fragrant flowers adorned with golden-yellow centres. Suitable as a hedge or informal screening plant, as they can be pruned into any shape. You can also grow them as a tree or standard plant by removing the lower branches.
A pretty evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and a profusion of flowers which are usually pink, red or white. An ideal shrub for seaside gardens. Easy to grow and low-maintenance.
The dense growth of this plant ensures that they make excellent wind breakers and large screening shrubs. They make a beautiful clipped hedge and can be planted in a container and shaped. Great for bonsai enthusiasts.
Ideal for smaller gardens. A few specimens of this neat shrub, each planted in a fairly large clay pot, or placed in a row up a set of stairs, are a sight to remember. Gardeners also love to plant this shrub in pots or urns placed around formal water features.
A strikingly attractive and hardy drought resistant tree, with an uncommon silvery-blue appearance that contrasts beautifully with surrounding, darker green foliage. Well suited to harsh coastal conditions. It has a non invasive root system and can be used close to walls. Easily trained as a shrub or screening plant that can provide privacy in a short space of time due to its fast growing rate..
Botanical Name
Brachyleana Discolor
Growth Expectancy
4-8m H x 6-10m W
Position
Sun
Water Smart
Yes
Indigenous
Yes
Italian Cypress | Cupressus Sempervirens 'Stricta'
The pencil-thin conifer works great in restricted spaces or spaces where shade is not desired. It can be planted in groups to create a hedge or screen.
Botanical Name
Cupressus Sempervirens 'Stricta'
Growth Expectancy
6m - 10m H x 1m - 1.5m W
Position
Sun
Water Smart
Yes
Indigenous
No
Australian Coastal Rosemary | Westringia Fructicosa
This perennial shrub resembles rosemary but without the fragrance. It withstands salt spray and is a good choice for coastal gardens. Responds well to pruning.
A twiggy evergreen shrub with aromatic gray-green leaves and lavender blue flowers. You will find this shrub buzzing with bees. Great for beds and borders especially in coastal gardens.
Suitable for small gardens, this little evergreen tree has attractive light green foliage and unusual pink flowers with prominent sepals in summer. It is drought resistant.
Botanical Name
Loxostylis Alata
Growth Expectancy
5m H x 2.5m W
Position
Sun
Water Smart
Yes
Indigenous
Yes
Swane's Gold Italian Cypress | Cupressus Sempervirens 'Swane's Gold'
Beautiful and popular evergreen conifer with dense green to golden yellow foliage. Makes for a perfect ornamental specimen, ideally placed along driveways and in containers.
A vibrant shrub bearing green leaves with a striking yellow margin and sky blue flowers, which will add colour and texture to any garden. Ideal as a hedge or as a filler plant in garden beds.
The dense, compact growth of this beautiful evergreen shrub is perfect for small hedges, screens or foundation plantings. The leaves are slightly smaller and darker green than V. tinus. Tight clusters of lightly fragrant pinkish-white flowers in spring are followed by dark blue-black fruit.
A relatively fast growing and bushy small shrub that has fine, twiggy growth covered in heath-like foliage and is covered with small, star-shaped purple flowers for most of the year.
