HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT
INDIGENOUS PLANT
Keep track, we continue to add plants and categories each week.
Depending on your garden style, knowledge, and experience, these categories allow you to find a range of plants suitable for your specific needs. A gardener whose garden is designed mainly around wildlife interaction may require companion plants, a grassland corner, forest -edge, or wildlife pond. Those looking to create a sustainable, low-maintenance garden may begin with their rainfall region.
Each category page gives you an overview of the plants that fall within it, ordered by subcategories - trees, shrubs, etc, and in some cases, sun and shade within the subcategories. Click on a plant for further info; to move to the next plant inside the subcategory, use the NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons in the top right of the plant description page.
Plants are limited to those listed in our database. We're currently adding more species so keep popping back.
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Gomphocarpus physocarpus
Size:
Flowers:
50 cm up to 2 m high and very slender
white; pink; summer; November to April; year-round
low; moderate
Water:
Frost:
light; moderate; hardy
Light:
sun
Cotton Balls; Hairy Balls
Garden situation:
sun; rockery gravel; grassland meadow; dry soil; slope bank; clay soils; wildlife bees wasps insects butterflies birds beetles
Dyschoriste thunbergiiflora
Size:
Flowers:
1.5 x 1.7 m
purple; mauve; October to April; summer; autumn
moderate
Water:
Frost:
light; moderate
Light:
semi-shade; sun
Purple Bells
Garden situation:
sun; semi-shade; damp soils; container; shrubbery; damp shade; clay soils; fast-growing easy-care; wildlife insects butterflies insectivorous birds; hedge
Commiphora harveyi
Size:
Flowers:
8 x 7 m
white; October to December; spring; summer
low; moderate; high
Water:
Frost:
light; tender
Light:
sun; semi-shade
Red-stemmed Corkwood or Bronze Paper Commiphora
Garden situation:
sun; semi-shade; damp soils; damp sun; dry soils; clay soils; container; rockery gravel; slope bank; bonsai; feature tree; wildlife birds insects