| Description | Correa alba
A popular choice amongst council and parks landscapers due to its set-and-forget nature, the Correa is a attractive, hardy and versatile perennial shrub.
• White star-shaped flowers with rounded, velvety leaves
• Will grow in both full sun or part shade, tolerating harsh Australian soil and weather
• Responds well to pruning, making neat hedges or even native topiary | Betula pendula youngii 'Weeping Silver Birch'
Weeping Silver Birch is a beautiful tree that is medium sized. Grows best in a position of full sun to partial shade. Silver Birch is great for larger gardens and parks etc. It's bark remains white at the base.
This tree is easy to grow and will thrive in most types of soil. This Weeping Silver Birch is deciduous and bears lovely small green leaves.
12" pot size, approximately 6ft tall. | Olea europaea
Swan Hill Olive is a unique and elegant evergreen tree that grows to a large size of approximately 34ft in height. Likes moist to dry soils and is drought tolerant. Swan Hill should be planted in a position of full sun to partial shade. This tree has a very long life span and strong branches. It bears grey green foliage and light gray scaly bark.
Please note, Swan Hill variety is a very low fruiting Olive, mainly used for screening and not fruiting.
| Wisteria sinensis
One of the most popular Wisteria available with slightly smaller flowers than that of the Wisteria floribunda, hanging 18-30cm off the vine
• Long, fragrant purple flowers covering bare vines in the early spring
• Can be trained to climb along a fence, trellis, arbor or archways.
• Prefers a full sun position in moist, well-drained soil
For care instructions and additional information, click here!
10"/25cm pot | Hardenbergia Violacea "Meema"
Meema has great upright form and grows into a shrubby ground cover, it will creep up things if allowed to. Maintains very tidy form even when unpruned and masses of purple flowers appear from July-September. Thrives in a full sun to semi shade position. Tolerates cold and drought. | Cotinus Coggygria, Smoketree
Purple Smoke Bush is a gem in the garden thanks to it's unique blend of colours that change throughout the seasons. A large deciduous shrub or small tree, its beautiful eye-catching Spring foliage is green overlaid with purple. Summer brings deep purple foliage that then turns deep orange and bronze in a burst of glory for an Autumn show.
Purple Smokebush gets its name from the clouds of smoke-like purple and pink "flowers" it produces in early Summer. These are very beautiful themselves, and are prized along with the foliage by florists. Grows best in full sun to partial shade and it is tolerant of drought and most soils, making it a great addition to many gardens.
10" pot size. | Pyrus calleryana
A narrow, upright form and an excellent choice for space-restricted or compact areas. Glossy green leaves in Summer, Plentiful white flowers pop up in spring and autumn colour of Reds, Oranges and Purples.
Great for fence lines, tree lined driveway, street planting or parks.
Grows in a column shape.
Can average 8-10m tall. Can be trimmed to keep at 6m if required.
16''/40cm pot | Sisyrinchium
Devon Skies is a special ground cover that creates a magical carpet of little blue flowers in Spring-Summer.
While its foliage has a grass-like look, and it is often known as Blue-eye Grass, it is actually a bulb closely related to the Iris. Devon Skies grows well in pots, and is also is perfect for rockeries.
This plant enjoys being in full sun to part shade, and once established is both drought and frost hardy.
Grows approximately H: 15cm W: 30cm |
| Content | | | | | | | Ornamental pear trees are fast growing, tolerant of most soil types, including heavy and poor soils, and best of all they come in a range of shapes and sizes to suit your landscaping requirements.
Check out our Ornamental Pear Tree Factsheet for more info. | |
| Additional information | |
| botanical name |
Betula pendula ?Youngii?
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| height x width |
Height of the standard x 3m at 20 years
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| features |
Silver/white peeling bark, bright green small leaves, graceful long weeping branches
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| conditions |
Plant in full sun to part shade in well drained mulched soil
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| landscape use |
An excellent specimen for any garden, may be trimmed into more of an umbrella shape or left to weep to the ground
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| botanical name |
Wisteria sinensis
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| height x width |
Climber up to 10m
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| features |
Long lavender-blue racemes of fragrant pea-like flowers up to 30cm long appear in spring on bare branches before the leaves appear giving a spectacular display, large velvety pods are produced in autumn, very hardy and fast growing
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| conditions |
Full sun in well-drained soil, prune regally,
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| landscape use |
Pergolas, arbors, rotundas, trellis, can be trained into Standards and Topiary,
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| height x width |
3m x 3m
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| features |
Attractive rounded purple foliage with a red tinge in spring and autumn, inflorescences appear in summer covering the bush like a cloud of smoke
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, feature, color contrast
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| Botanical Name |
Sisyrinchium "Devon Skies"
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