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EREMOPHILA Glabra - Grey Horizon

A prostrate shrub 0.3–10’ in height. The leaves are arranged alternately, sometimes crowded, other times sparse, usually lance-shaped but they may also be linear to egg-shaped.

The flowers are red, orange, yellow or yellowish green, lack spots and are arranged singly or in pairs in the leaf axils.

ANIGOZANTHOS Rufus - Backdraft™

This evergreen perennial forms clumps to 1 to 2 feet wide with blue-green strap-shaped leaves to 2 feet tall. For a long period from spring through early summer emerge the dark red tubular flower buds that flare open at tips like a paw on branching 3 foot tall stems that are covered with downy red hairs.

EREMOPHILA Decipiens - Slender Fushia Emu

The slender fuchsia is a showy desert plant.

  • This short evergreen shrub has upright branches and vibrant scarlet tubular flowers in winter.

  • It tolerates intense heat, drought, wind and light freezes.

  • Hummingbirds will frequent the blossoms.

  • Slender fuchsia can be grown in hot, dry soils in full sun and requires no irrigation once it’s established.

EREMOPHILA Glabra - Fire and Ice™

Produces bright red/orange flowers winter to summer.

  • Striking silver-grey foliage all year. Great for hummingbird landscape design areas.

  • Plant as a color accent specimen in and around trees and shrubs, also in patio garden planters.

  • Prefers full sun. 

EREMOPHILA Prostrata - Outback Sunrise™

Deep green foliage contrasts beautifully with bright yellow trumpet like flowers throughout spring and summer. Hummingbird attractive. Full sun; salt, drought and cold tolerant.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis ‘LJ1’- Better John TM

Better John is a seedling selection of the dwarf bottle-brush C. ‘Little John’ and was selected for improved plant vigour, its “blue” foliage colour, and because it exhibited a more dense foliage canopy.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis ‘LJ23’ - Green John

Compact, dwarf, low round form.

Tight deep greyish green foliage.

Abundant deep red bottle-brush spring to fall.

Excellent patio plant.

Border and rockery feature.

Full sun adapts to clay/sandy soils.

DODENEA Viscosa SPP. Purpurea - Purple Hopseed

Fast growing evergreen shrub, 4'-8'. Purple leaf form. Full sun to partial shade. Attractive screen, clipped hedge. Good block wall camouflage, around pools, and under eucalyptus canopy.