Fantastic Australian Native Hanging Plants
Native hedges do a wonderful job of attracting birds and beneficial pollinators to your garden.
Australian native hanging plants. Native flowers attract wildlife look beautiful and stand up to a range of challenging climates. Using Aussie Natives in the garden is one of the best ways to create safe haven and habitat for our amazing wildlife and pollinators. Photo by Brian Roach.
But horticulturists are now looking to Australian native plants and reviewing their suitability as hedges. Lbiloba is the best known with its vivid blue. Australia has some of the harshest conditions in the world.
There are restrictions on sending some native plants to certain states due to state Biosecurity laws. Eremophila maculata with stunning crimson flowers. These are small delicate looking plants native to western Australia.
A fantastic plant which grows over much of inland Australia in a multitude of flower colours red pink orange yellow and white. We recommend choosing a mix of species and cultivars eg a banksia a grevillea and a waxflower. Some even grow better in baskets than in other types of containers or in the ground.
Take Lechenaultias for example. Australian native plants for pots small gardens. Produces brightly contrasting white and purple typical violet flowers from spring to fall.
Callistemon Great Balls of Fire is a non flowering bottlebrush that is perfect for hedges with the great adaptable nature of the bottlebrush family. Scaevola is a spreading perennial with lush bright green leaves. They hardly need any water at all.