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EREMOPHILA Maculata - Carmine Star™

Low spreading shrub 8’ tall. Its leaves are thread-like to almost circular but are nearly always glabrous.

The flower colour often varies even within a single population and may be pink, mauve, red, orange or yellow, often spotted on the inside.

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.

ACACIA cultriformis - Knife Leaf Wattle

Attractive bush grows 6'-8' tall x 6' wide.

  • Hardy xeriscape specimen, bluish green phyllodes are almost triangular, featuring red tips.

  • Bright yellow globular flower heads produced in racemes during spring.

  • Open branched habit.

  • Feature plant useful backgrounds screen.

EREMOPHILA Calorhabdos X Splendens - Red Splendour Emu Bush™

Grows well in hot, dry sites, making it highly drought tolerant as well as relatively frost tolerant. It also has an unusual growth form for an eremophila, making it an ideal, stunning feature plant.

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.

EREMOPHILA Maculata - Outback Bush fire™ Spotted Emu Bush

Narrow shiny green leaves and spotted long red tubular flowers winter and spring, followed by glossy oval fruits.

Grows well in light to medium soil in full sun or partial shade, an attractive rockery and tub plant.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis - CV01 Slim™

A unique Callistemon with a narrow slimline growth habit
• Great as a screen or hedge
• Takes up less space

Slim will provide landscape gardeners with a beautiful flowering bottle-brush that can be used in tight planting areas such as thin garden beds, along a fence line or a wall.

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.

THEMADA Australis - Blue Roo PPAP

Introducing a prostrate form of kangaroo grass, selected for its dense growth habit, great grey-blue to maroon foliage and low-growing habit.

A seedling selection from another weeping form called Mingo, Blu Roo was selected because it has the same great foliage and form, but with a more “full” look.

EUCALYPTUS Victrix - Coolibah

Small to medium tree, 25’-35’. Attractive white trunk; weeping foliage. Small clusters of white flowers summer-fall.
Quick growing, tough desert plant. Withstands high winds, low water use, salt tolerant. Similar to Eucalyptus microtheca except for the trunk colour.

EUCALYPTUS Woodwardii - Lemon Flowered Gum

Attractive drought tolerant tree. 30' excellent residential flowering specimen producing frosted white flower buds and large clusters of cascading brilliant yellow flowers. Desert Botanical Garden has been developing this hardy specimen tree since early 1980's. Weeping grey foliage.

EUCALYPTUS Erythrocory - Red Cap Gum

Quick growing with compact habit, growing to 25' high and 12' wide. Lush shiny, long green leaves, full, dense foliage. Attractive bright red caps pop open to bright yellow flower clusters in mid-summer.

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. 

ACACIA Stenophylla - Shoestring Acacia

Attractive, hardy, weeping tree 30' tall and 15' wide. Lemon blossoms in spring. Excellent median specimen. Ornamental foliage makes this specimen worthwhile for use in large gardens and parks
as shade and shelter trees. Drought and cold resistant.

EUCALYPTUS - Moon Lagoon

Very attractive small to medium shrub 4-12  feet tall. Dainty grey-blue leaves circle the stems. Reddish-orange seed caps burst into masses of snow white flowers in late spring.

CALLISTEMON Phoenicius - Fiery Lesser Bottlebrush

Hardy xeriscape tall shrub or small tree 8'x12'. Forms a tight screen clipped hedge. Research proven. Drought and salt resistant, proven hardiness 16-122 F. Masses of deep red flowers in summer.

EUCALYPTUS Silverton - Silverton Province

Hardy, fast-growing evergreen tree, growing  35'-100' tall with pendulous branches. Attractive white trunk. Good windbreak or screen on property lines. Tolerates desert heat. Establishes quickly.

EUCALYPTUS Campaspe - Silver Topped Gimlet

Attractive, medium height feature tree 30" tall and 15' wide.

Greyish-white leaves, skin-like trunk.

Yellow flowers in summer.

Proven drought and cold hardy.

Quick shade.

EUCALYPTUS Leucoxylon Rosea - White Iron Bark

Medium sized woodland tree from Northern Victoria.

Long, grey-green pendulous branches.

Spear shaped leaves.

Quick to establish producing abundant pink flower clusters.