Trees & Shrubs
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Common Name: Korean Fir, Silver Fir
Pinaceae
Hardy tree
The first five years or so this tree grows slowly, it then speeds up to become one of the fastest of conifers both for height and timber volume. This very handsome, easily grown and disease-resistant tree produces ornamental, violet-purple cones e...
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$3.90 / packet
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Common Name: Abutilon, Chinese Bell Flower, Flowering Maple
Malvaceae
Hardy shrub
Trusses of large, saucer-shaped flowers, which vary in colour from almost white to light blue-mauve, are borne profusely from April until September, offset by large greyish-green, rather felted leaves. These completely frost hardy abutilons do wel...
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$3.60 / packet
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Common Name: Golden Wattle, Acacia Trinervis, Aroma Doble
Leguminosae
Half hardy shrub
The "Aroma Doble" or "Golden Wattle" grows very quickly reaching 4-5m in five to six years.
Flowering very early, it produces cylindrical clusters of fragrant golden-yellow flowers from February to April.
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$3.75 / packet
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Common Name: Black Wattle
Leguminoseae
Hardy tree
Half hardy shrub
Hardy shrub
This attractive, hardy, small native Australian tree bears sprays of very delicate feather-like bipinnate foliage and impressive heads of countless fluffy, very fragrant, creamy-yellow blossoms. Although it can grow very large in New Zealand and ...
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$4.05 / packet
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Common Name: OVEN'S WATTLE, WEDGED LEAF WATTLE
Leguminosae
Hardy tree
Hardy shrub
Probably the hardiest of all acacias, this drought-tolerant evergreen produces profuse, fragrant, bright golden yellow, spherical, fluffy flower-heads, which are produced in early spring. This is probably the most unusual of all acacias as the nam...
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$3.90 / packet
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Common Name: Water Wattle, Swamp Wattle, Everblooming Acacia
Leguminosae
Half hardy shrub
One of the hardiest mimosas with thin, strap-shaped, willow-like leaves and dense sprays of fragrant, light lemon, fuzzy flowers in spring and summer. This little beauty is called Wirilda in Australia.
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$3.29 / packet
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Common Name: Tartar Maple, Tatraian Maple
Sapindaceae
Hardy tree
This attractive, bushy, round-crowned deciduous tree bears creamy white flowers and red fruit, and glossy bright green leaves, with toothed margins, that turn a flaming red or yellow in autumn. The thin pale bark is smooth at first but becomes fis...
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$4.21 / packet
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Common Name: PERSIAN SILK TREE
MIMOSACEAE
Hardy tree
This is a pretty and wide spreading tree which can be several times wider than it is high with very fine, ferny, divided foliage and fluffy, pink flowers which form in late summer and early autumn. The flowers, which have a sweet pea-like perfume,...
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$4.36 / packet
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Common Name: Soap Aloe, Zebra Aloe
Asphodeloideae
Hardy tree
Half hardy perennial
Hardy perennial
This is the rarer yellow-flowered form of this normally orange-red flowered plant, in the Northern hemisphere the sprays of tubular yellow flowers opening in December and January. A compact clumping plant that can either sucker freely or grow soli...
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$4.36 / packet
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Hardy shrub
You will rarely see these plants offered never mind the seeds! A selection of very exotic shrubs to delight you as you grow old. Fresh seed collected in Central and Southern Chile. Includes coliguaya, cordia, flourensia, greigia, ugni and others. ...
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$4.21 / packet
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