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Drought Tolerant Plants

Browse our diverse range of drought-tolerant plants for the Australian climate. With a large range to choose from you can achieve a beautiful and vibrant garden with minimal watering requirements.

AEONIUM 'VELOUR'

AEONIUM 'VELOUR'

Another aeonium from the `Atropurpureum' stable from which the jet black `Schwarzkopf' was selected. This one has a more rounded form with compact rosettes that retain a green centre - a vivid contrast to the deep ...

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ALOE 'BUSH BABY YELLOW' PBR

ALOE 'BUSH BABY YELLOW' PBR

Fine, upright, soft-green leaves are topped with clear, yellow nectar-rich flowers during summer. A compact aloe suited to frost-free gardens. The flower spikes unfurl from the base to the tip creating a subtle, but ...

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ALOE 'FAIRY PINK' PBR

ALOE 'FAIRY PINK' PBR

A unique aloe with delicate, white buds lightly brushed in apricot-pink at the base. Popular with bird watchers as the birds will flock to your garden to sample their sweet nectar. Flowers for weeks with flower spike...

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ANTHEMIS 'E.C. BUXTON'

ANTHEMIS 'E.C. BUXTON'

Pale-yellow daisies cover the ferny, ground-hugging foliage. Beth Chatto lists this as one of the 10 best plants in her garden. Combine with hot coloured dahlias or blue catmints and salvias. Flowers profusely from ...

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ANTHEMIS 'SUSANNA MITCHELL'

ANTHEMIS 'SUSANNA MITCHELL'

The finely dissected grey-green foliage is covered with a carpet of primrose yellow daisies for months. Invaluable in pastel colour schemes and beautiful when paired with blue.

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BLUE CHALK STICKS

BLUE CHALK STICKS

This ground cover is one of the most valuable landscaping succulents. Planted en masse, it creates a dense rippling mat of compact silver-blue leaves that flow between other succulents and shrubs like a turquoise ...

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CANARY ISLAND WORMWOOD

CANARY ISLAND WORMWOOD

The perfect small evergreen with the softest of silky silver foliage. The aromatic leaves are pine-scented and it is ideal for planting under fruit trees to repel caterpillars and moths. Beautiful when combined with deep ...

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CATMINT 'WALKER'S LOW'

CATMINT 'WALKER'S LOW'

A classic edging plant for the flower border and just as at home beneath old-world roses where it is an exceptional companion plant. Long flowering and vigorous, this catmint provides months of colour and its beautiful mauve-blue flowers attract beneficial insects and pollinators to the garden.

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BARE ROOT POTTED. With the poise and the grace of Nothofagus, but with the exquisite umbrella shape. Ideal size for small backyards. The best Elm for hot and dry climates. The growth habit provides the maximum shade. The bark is striking with orange and brown markings. Leaves fall after turning yellow or red...

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The softest of luscious peach trumpets with a delicate creamy-yellow throat are held in compact bunches on 30cm long stems. Complements cream and red clivias for a massed effect. Perfect for low light positions.

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COREOPSIS 'STERNTALER'

COREOPSIS 'STERNTALER'

Striking red centres call attention to pollinators and gardeners alike on this charming long-flowering yellow daisy. Will tolerate some shade. Prune after flowering.

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DYERS CHAMOMILE

DYERS CHAMOMILE

Pale-yellow daisies cover the ferny, ground-hugging foliage. Beth Chatto lists this as one of the 10 best plants in her garden. Combine with hot coloured dahlias or blue catmints and salvias. Flowers profusely from ...

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Tapering towers of glistening white rise from a starry rosette of grey felted foliage. Makes a stunning statement by producing tall white flowering totem poles. A real eye-catcher that always impresses visitors ...

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EUPHORBIA WULFENII

EUPHORBIA WULFENII

This unusual drought-tolerant perennial flowers for a long time in sun or shade. Large lime-green flowers lift the winter garden, with blue-grey foliage creating a striking contrast among spring and summer flowering perennials. This variety was given to us by Beth Chatto and produces more vibrant flowers than other seed grown plants.

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Gaura 'SUMMER BREEZE'

Gaura 'SUMMER BREEZE'

A graceful and long flowered selection, whose myriad flowers dance on tall stems throughout summer and autumn. These glistening butterfly-like white flowers emerge with long filaments, unfolding from pink buds. ...

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Gaura 'Summer Breeze' 3 PACK

Gaura 'Summer Breeze' 3 PACK

A graceful and long flowered selection, whose myriad flowers dance on tall stems throughout summer and autumn. These glistening butterfly-like white flowers emerge with long filaments, unfolding from pink buds. ...

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LAMB'S EARS 'BIG EARS'

LAMB'S EARS 'BIG EARS'

An outstanding silver-leaved ground cover with a soft appearance that belies its toughness. Versatile and vigorous, 'Big Ears' tolerates even the harshest of soils. Great to use in hot spots where other plants fail to thrive. This variety is a bold foliage plant that rarely flowers.

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LAMB'S EARS BIG EARS 3 PACK

LAMB'S EARS BIG EARS 3 PACK

An outstanding silver-leaved ground cover with a soft appearance that belies its toughness. Versatile and vigorous, 'Big Ears' tolerates even the harshest of soils. Great to use in hot spots where other plants fail to thrive. This variety is a bold foliage plant that rarely flowers.

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LAVENDER DWARF 'MONET'

LAVENDER DWARF 'MONET'

This dwarf French lavender has the finest of foliage and flowers, making a fragrant low hedge. Although known as French lavender, this species originates throughout Spain. Each felted leaf is delicately toothed and rich in essential oils, with the slightest scent of camphor. Adored by bees.

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LAVENDER 'HIDCOTE'

LAVENDER 'HIDCOTE'

Famous for the deepest of purple flowers borne on a compact silvery-leaved shrub. Prized for its highly aromatic flowers, this lavender is favoured by oil producers, but is equally valuable as a garden plant that thrives in the harshest of summers. Drought-tolerant.

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LAVENDER 'HIDCOTE' 3 PACK

LAVENDER 'HIDCOTE' 3 PACK

Famous for the deepest of purple flowers borne on a compact, silvery- leaved shrub. Prized for its highly aromatic flowers, this lavender is favoured by oil producers, but is equally valuable as a garden plant that...

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From the sun-baked hills of Morocco comes this beautiful pink daisy. Produces a continual succession of clear pink flowers, each with a darkened eye, over mounds of attractive blue-green leaves. Flowers from ...

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NEW ZEALAND LILY 'MATAPOURI BAY'

NEW ZEALAND LILY 'MATAPOURI BAY'

Also known as the 'Renga Renga Lily', this robust variety was selected for its superior waxy blue-green foliage produced in dense clumps. During spring, branching flowerheads carry numerous white stars. The solution for any dry shady site. Tolerant of coastal conditions.

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OREGANO 'ROSENKUPPEL'

OREGANO 'ROSENKUPPEL'

A compact ornamental oregano with deep purple bracts, topped with pinky-mauve flowers in delicate sprays above the dark green foliage.

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VERBENA BONARIENSIS 3 PACK

VERBENA BONARIENSIS 3 PACK

Possibly one of the most valuable of summer flowering plants. This beauty from Brazil threads its stiffly upright stems through other perennials, floating hundreds of amethyst hemispheres of bloom. Ideal for the back of the border where it softens the outline of its garden companions. Potentially invasive in disturbed bushland.

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YACON

Also known as Apple of the Earth this crunchy root vegetable is low in kilojoules making it ideal for diabetics. Harvest the tubers once the leaves have died down. Leave them to dry to increase their sweetness before peeling them to eat raw, steamed or tossed through a stirfry.

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2yr membership +FREE vegie seeds

2yr membership +FREE vegie seeds

Membership: MNE2VS

Grow the best tasting vegies with free Beetroot 'Bulls Blood', Tomato 'Tigerella', Cucumber 'Double Yield' and Zucchini 'Black Beauty' seeds (one packet of each, valued at $21).

Member $79.00
Non-Member $79.00

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