| Description | Melaleuca armillaris
The Space Saver™ Honey Myrtle is a compact native shrub with fine, soft green foliage and masses of fluffy white bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer. Bred to stay neat and tidy, it’s an excellent low-maintenance choice for hedges, borders, and native gardens where space is limited. Hardy and adaptable, this variety tolerates a wide range of conditions, including coastal sites and light frosts.
- Feeding: Use a low-phosphorus native fertiliser in spring
- Maintenance: Prune lightly after flowering to maintain shape
- Size: Grows 1–1.5 m tall and wide
6"/14cm pot | Sutera cordata
Bacopa Blue/Purple is a colourful groundcover perennial that makes a stunning display with masses of violet flowers throughout the year. Flowers from spring all the way to autumn. Excellent for pots and hanging baskets. Plant in full sun to part shade.
Mature growth: 10cm tall x 40cm wide.
6"/14cm pot | Lavandula angustifolia
Traditionally English Lavender was grown for its heavenly fragrance, used in oils and potpourri.
• Small, slender blue-ish purple flowers on tall stems above the foliage
• Grown in pots, as a hedge or in the cottage garden to attract bees and butterflies
• Tolerates drought and dry conditions, preferring well drained soils
6"/14cm pot | Trachelospermum jasminoides
A gorgeous, evergreen climber trained in the sculptural art of espalier
• Fragrant white jasmine flowers in summer
• Perfect for covering unsightly walls or fences
• Can be grown in pots or made into living wall art
| Azalea 'Alba Magnifica'
Azalea Alba Magnifica (Magnificent White) is a white flowering evergreen azalea which puts on a nice show in Spring. A great easy to grow flowering border or small flowering shrub, these Azaleas also look great mass planted in a bed.
Azalea Alba Magnifica likes full sun or part shade, so it's also good for underplanting trees. |
| Additional information |
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| botanical name |
Sutera cordata sp
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| height x width |
Up to 15-20cm x spreading
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| features |
Masses of white starry flowers above lime green foliage for most of the year
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade
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| landscape use |
Excellent colorful groundcover great for garden beds, planting in mass, pot plants, window boxes, hanging baskets, under planting topiary in pots or garden
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| height x width |
1m x 1m
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| planting distance |
For border: 50cm
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| features |
Narrow aromatic grey-green leaves and slender spikes of tiny fragrant purple flower spikes during summer
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| conditions |
Sunny open position in well-drained soil, lavender will not tolerate wet feet, please read Wet Feet Kills, prune after flowering
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| landscape use |
Borders, hedges, single specimens, containers, cut flowers, pot pourri, oil, lavender sachets
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| height x width |
Climber or groundcover
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: .5 to 1m
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| features |
Dark polished green leaves, sweetly fragrant starry white small flowers in abundance in summer
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| conditions |
Sun to shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Climber for along fences, arbors, pots, groundcover,
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| botanical name |
Rhododendron indica 'Alba Magnifica'
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| height x width |
60cm-1.5m x 80cm-1.8m [Depending on the cultivar]
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| planting distance |
For border: 40-80cm
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| features |
Masses of flowers bunched together in reds, pinks, white, mauve, purple, apricot, yellow and multi-colors during winter and spring, they give a fantastic show of color
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| conditions |
Part shaded position protected from hot afternoon sun in an acidic soil
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| landscape use |
Shaded areas, features, borders, mixed garden planting
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