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Description

Ptilotus spathulatus

Pussy Tails

• Prostrate ground cover.
• Perennial 1-2 cm
• Growth rate very fast.
• Use for dry banks, rockeries, hanging baskets.
• Heavy soils – preferably dry.
• Full sun to part shade.
• Very frost hardy.
• Extremely drought tolerant.
• Flowers in spring to early summer.
• Unusual flower / seed head.
• Great between rocks in rockeries.
• Diplarrena moraea

White Flag Iris

Clump forming iris

• Perennial 0.5-1.0 m
• Growth rate fast.
• Use for borders, mass plantings, pots.
• Any soil except very wet.
• Full sun to part shade.
• Very frost hardy.
• Very drought resistant.
• Flowers in spring to early summer.
• Can be slashed or burned to rejuvinate.
• Butterfly attracting.
• Can easily be divided.
• Reasonable cut flower.

Clematis gentianoides

Ground Clematis

• Tas endemic.
• Prostrate ground cover.
• Evergreen 0.1-0.4 m
• Growth rate fast.
• Use for ground cover, rockeries, banks.
• Any soil including heavy clay.
• Full sun to part shade.
• Very frost hardy.
• Extremely drought resistant.
• Flowers in spring.
• Prune as required to control shape.
• Useful native ground cover for under gum trees.
• Butterfly attracting.

Podolepis jaceoides

Sunburst Daisy

• Rosette forming perennial 0.5 m
• Growth rate fast.
• Use for mass plantings, rockeries, pots, borders, bush gardens.
• Most soils except very wet.
• Full sun to part shade.
• Very frost hardy.
• Extremely drought tolerant.
• Flowers in spring.
• Long flowering.
• Will self seed in native plantings.
• Butterfly attracting.
• Fantastic mass planting species.
• Bee attracting.