This large tree is native to south and southeast Asia, and is more commonly known the commercial wood product, teak, with a wide variety of uses from furniture to boat building. The leaves are used for fermenting soybeans. With clusters of small, lightly fragranced, white flowers which are pollinated by bees, flies and ants. A tree for a sunny position with moist, well-drained soil, it can however tolerate drought. ... Learn More

A handsome ornamental tree with small white, flowers blooming throughout the year, but more heavily in spring. Seed pods produce an edible almond-like nut, hence the common name. Prefers well-drained, moist soil and is salt tolerant, so suitable for coastal locations. ... Learn More

Purple and white flowers adorn this aromatic herb, along with dark purple stems and narrow green leaves. Widely used for both culinary and health benefits, a valuable addition to any herb garden. It has a milder flavour when compared to sweet basil, and is used extensively in Thai and Vietnamese cookery.Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or can also be grown in pots on a sunny windowsill. ... Learn More

Slender spikes of pure ivory-white flowers with attractive purple filamentous eyes, arise from rosettes of glossy dark green leaves, later forming hard green spherical seed capsules on thin stems. This plant is an absolute must for every cottage garden when it may gently self-seed into gravel or empty corners but is rarely a problem. These seeds may produce an occasional flower with a different colour. ... Learn More

This very rare, spectacular, and the tiniest of dwarf gems does best in a shady corner or a pot out of the sun, where it makes an attractive, slowly creeping and rooting carpet of tiny hairy leaves with miniature yellow-eyed, pale blue blossoms. These appear mainly in the spring, but it will gently flower throughout the year if happy. It will also make a superb ground cover beneath other taller plants, either in a conservatory or in a greenhouse. Sent to us labelled 'Seed Collected Alpine Papua New Guinea' and certainly not yet in wide cultivation, ... Learn More

This short, tender shrub has elliptical green leaves, producing small bell-shaped, five-petaled flowers and small red berries. Preferring a sheltered spot in full sun, this plant will grow well after all chance of frost is gone, but would need to be brought inside the green house to overwinter, or grown again from seed. The berries are very popular with birds! ... Learn More

With long leaves, radiating out from each leaf stem, giving them a fox tail-like appearance, white flowers blossom, followed by clusters of orange -red fruit. This spectacular palm, native to Queensland, is great for growing in pots and containers on a sunny patio or in a conservatory or greenhouse. It is tender to frost so needs to be brought inside during the colder winter months. The Foxtail Palm remained undiscovered until 1978 when an Aboriginal man brought this species to the attention of authorities. It is now named after him 'Wodyeti'. ... Learn More