Celebrating 'Aussie Made'

Aren’t we all so relieved now the weather has cooled, we have had some rain and the bush fires are all out? Long may our relief last!!

There was a period in the last couple of months when I thought there would be nothing left of my 4 year old native garden. Most of it looked so stricken in the heat and dry I thought it was the end of 'life as we know it'. But to my surprise most of my garden did survive and with the rain the bounce back has been extraordinary. It’s almost like it didn’t happen at all.

Many of you have told me that you will be looking for very hardy plants to replace plants which didn’t survive in your own gardens and have requested a list to help you along. So here is a list of the plants which survived this year in my garden. Im not saying they were not given any water but they were given very little. Neither am I saying that they all looked fabulous (though some didn’t miss a beat) but they have all perked up now that the weather is cooler and we have had some rain and most of them are now putting on decent growth again which is very exciting. Long live Aussie native plants I say!!
 
Grasses and Clumping plants

• Dianella tasmanica, D. revoluta, D. caerulea
• Poa labillardieri, P. seiberi
• Joycea pallida
• Lomandra ‘Tanika’, L. longifolia

 
Groundcover

• Dodonaea sp. Low
• Carpobrotus glaucescens
• Hardenbergia violacea
• Eremophila glabra burgundy prostrate
• Zieria prostrata
• Chrysocephalum apiculaum silver
• Grevillea lanigera Mt Tamboritha, G. curviloba supsp. Incurva, G. juniperina prostrate yellow
• Correa decumbens flat, C. nummulariifolia, Correa ‘White Lies
• Enchylaena tomentosa
• Myoporum parvifolium broad leaf, Myoporum Monaro Marvel
• Ajuga australis
• Einadia nutans
• Kunzea ‘Badja Carpet’
• Lasiopetalum micrantheum
• Rhagodia spinescens

 
Small Shrubs

• Philotheca ‘Winter Rouge’, ‘Bournda Beauty’
• Crowea exalata, C. ‘Poorinda Ecstasy’
• Westringia ‘Zena’, W. ‘Smokie’, W. glabra
• Melaleuca violacea
• Grevillea ‘Pink Pixie’, Grevillea ‘Celia’
• Astartea fascicularis
• Callistemon White Anzac
• Correa ‘Candy Pink’, C. ‘Dusky Bells’, C. Ivory Lantern, C. pulchella hybrid white, C. pulchella pink
• Micromyrtus ciliata
• Dillwynia sericea
• Grevillea baueri
• Homoranthus papillatus
• Melalaeuca decussata dwarf

 
 
 
Medium Shrubs

• Calothamnus quadrifidus
• Correa glabra red, C. glabra yellow, C. alba, C. Backhouseana, C. calycina, C. mannii,
• C. ‘Marions Marvel’, C. reflexa upright pink, C. ‘White tips’
• Philotheca myoporoides
• Acacia beckleri
• Allocasuarina nana
• Callistemon ‘Bronwyn’, C. ‘Rowena’
• Callytrix tetragona
• Eremophila maculata orange
• Grevillea iaspicula, G. jephcottii, G. ‘John Evans’, G. ‘Scarlet Sprite’
• Hovea longifolia
• Indigofera australis, I. adesmiifolia
• Isopogon formosus
• Leptospermum ‘Lavender Queen’
• Micrantheum hexandrum
• Olearia phlogopappa blue, pink and white
• Prostanthera scuttelarioides
• Senecio linearifolia
• Senna artemisioides
• Westringia longifolia, W. ‘Wynyabbie Gem’
• Callistemon splendens
• Zieria  littoralis
• Myoporum insulare

 
Large Shrubs

• Acacias of all sorts
• Bursaria spinosa
• Callistemon ‘Western Glory’
• Dodonea viscosa
• Hakea sericea
• Melaleuca parvistaminea
• Myoporum floribundum

 
 
 
 
 

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