Westringia fruticosa ‘Bullii’ – Coastal Creeper

Westringia fruticosa ‘Bullii’, commonly known as Coastal Creeper, is a hardy, low-growing Australian native shrub valued for its dense, spreading habit and soft grey-green foliage. This versatile groundcover forms a neat, compact mound, making it ideal for covering large areas, stabilising slopes, or softening garden edges.

Small, delicate pale mauve to white flowers appear throughout the year, adding subtle colour and attracting pollinators. Its naturally tidy growth requires minimal maintenance, and it responds well to light pruning if shaping is desired.

Perfect for coastal and exposed sites, this tough plant tolerates wind, salt spray, and dry conditions once established.

Features:

• Low-growing, spreading groundcover

• Attractive grey-green foliage year-round

• Pale mauve to white flowers for most of the year

• Ideal for coastal gardens, borders, and mass planting

• Excellent for erosion control and low hedging

Growing Conditions:

• Prefers full sun to part shade

• Thrives in well-drained soils

• Highly tolerant of coastal conditions, wind, and salt

• Drought tolerant once established

• Low maintenance and easy care

A reliable and attractive choice, Westringia ‘Bullii’ is perfect for creating a soft, natural look while providing excellent ground coverage in Australian gardens.

Pittosporum ‘Cream de Mint’

Add a fresh, elegant touch to your garden with Pittosporum ‘Cream de Mint’, a beautifully variegated shrub prized for its soft mint-green foliage edged in creamy white. This compact and versatile plant brings year-round colour and structure, making it perfect for hedging, borders, or feature planting.

Its dense growth habit responds well to pruning, allowing you to shape it into neat hedges or topiary forms. The subtle variegation brightens garden spaces and pairs wonderfully with both native and ornamental plantings.

In spring, small, fragrant flowers may appear, adding an extra layer of charm to this already attractive shrub.

Features:

• Soft mint-green leaves with creamy variegation

• Ideal for hedging, screening, or decorative shaping

• Compact, tidy growth habit

• Low maintenance and easy to care for

• Suitable for pots or garden planting

Growing Conditions:

• Prefers full sun to part shade

• Thrives in well-drained soil

• Tolerates coastal conditions and light frost once established

• Moderate water requirements

A stylish and reliable choice for modern gardens, Pittosporum ‘Cream de Mint’ is perfect for adding light, texture, and year-round appeal to your outdoor space.

Melaleuca hypericifolia ‘Little Gem’ is a delightful dwarf native shrub that packs plenty of colour into a small, tidy plant. Covered in brilliant orange bottlebrush-style flowers, this compact selection provides a vibrant display from spring through summer, adding brightness and life to any garden space. Grows 1.5m x 1.5m

With its naturally neat, spreading habit and fresh green foliage, Little Gem is perfect for low hedges, borders, rockeries, pots or mass planting. Its smaller size makes it easy to maintain while still delivering the bold flowering impact that bottlebrush plants are loved for.

Hardy and adaptable, this tough Australian native thrives in a range of conditions, tolerating heat, light frost and coastal exposure once established. The nectar-rich flowers are also a magnet for birds, bees and other pollinators, bringing movement and biodiversity to your garden.

Features:

• Dwarf, compact growth habit

• Bright Orange bottlebrush flowers

• Showy spring and summer colour

• Ideal for borders, pots and low hedging

• Bird and bee attracting

• Hardy, drought tolerant and low maintenance

Planting Tips:
Plant in full sun to light shade in well-drained soil. Water regularly while establishing, then only occasionally. Light pruning after flowering will maintain a dense, tidy shape and encourage repeat blooming.

A small but striking native shrub that delivers reliable colour and easy-care performance year after year.

Grevillea Forest Rambler is a vigorous, low-growing Australian native groundcover loved for its cascading habit and masses of soft pink spider-style flowers. Forming a dense, flowing mat of finely divided green foliage, it quickly softens banks, spills beautifully over walls.

Clusters ofsoft pink blooms appear generously through winter, spring and often beyond, attracting nectar-feeding birds and beneficial pollinators to the garden. Tough, fast growing and low maintenance, this hardy grevillea thrives in a wide range of conditions once established, making it ideal for Australian landscapes.

Perfect for erosion control, covering slopes, or creating a colourful living mulch, Forest Rambler delivers year-round texture and reliable flowering with very little fuss.

Features:

• Fast-spreading, dense groundcover

• Soft Pink spider flowers

• Long flowering season

• Bird and pollinator attracting

• Drought tolerant once established

• Great for banks, walls and large spaces

Planting Tips:
Plant in full sun to light shade in well-drained soil. Water regularly while establishing, then only occasionally. Prune lightly after flowering to maintain shape and encourage fresh growth.

A dependable, colourful native that rambles wherever it’s planted — perfect for adding life and movement to your garden.

Leptospermum 'White Wave' is a low-growing, spreading, Australian native shrub characterized by its gracefully arching branches, dense mid-green foliage, and abundant, profuse white flowers that cover the plant in late winter and spring. It reaches about 0.5 meters in height and can spread to 1 meter or more in width, making it excellent for groundcover, borders, and cascading over banks or retaining walls. This hardy and low-maintenance shrub is ideal for coastal gardens, containers, and wildlife gardens, as it attracts beneficial insects like bees and other pollinators.  

• Growth Habit: Low, spreading, and cascading.

• Foliage: Mid-green, dense leaves.

• Flowers: Abundant, white flowers with a fresh green center in late winter to spring.

• Size: Grows to about 0.5 meters high and 1 to 1.2 meters wide.

• Hardiness: Hardy and adaptable, tolerating full sun or partial shade, frost, and salt spray.

• Native Status: An Australian native.

Uses and Applications

• Groundcover and Borders: Its low, wide growth habit is perfect for covering ground and edging garden beds. 

• Erosion Control: Ideal for planting on banks and over retaining walls to prevent erosion. 

• Wildlife Gardens: Attracts beneficial wildlife, including birds and pollinators. 

• Containers: Suitable for growing in pots and large tubs. 

• Coastal and Rock Gardens: Resilient enough to handle coastal conditions and perfect for rockeries. 

Lomandra 'Little Con' (Lomandra confertifolia) is a small rounded native Lomandra growing 45cm x 30cm in full sun to partial shade. Small spikes of cream flowers occur within the foliage in Spring. Ideal for borders or for mass planting to create a fabulous effect. Also looks great scattered amongst rockeries. Can be pruned back to clean up and reshape.

Agapetes meiniana "Mountain Bells' is a shrubby, semi-climber with glossy, oval to lance-shaped leaves which have a pinkish tinge when new. The red to deep pink tubular flowers occur in the leaf axils and may occur at any time of year. They have a waxy appearance and are bell shaped to about 30 mm long. 'Mountain Bells' is a great addition to the garden, plant as an understory in sheltered positions where it will grow to 1.5m rounded shrub, also an excellent pot or hanging basket specimen.

Melaleuca hypericifolia ˜Ulladulla Beacon’ common name 'Honey Myrtle' is a low spreading shrub growing up to .5m high with a spread of 1.5 to 2m. It grows as a rounded bushy shrub in an open position, is dense and quick growing groundcover, or low spreading shrub to hand over rocks and walls. Bright green foliage is highlighted in spring and summer with brilliant bird-attracting orange-red brushes.