Westringia Deep Purple

Westringia Deep Purple is a selected form of Westringia Wild River, with lush green leaves and deep, rich purple flowers that occur throughout the year. It is a small shrub that grows between 0.5 metres and 1 metre high and 0.5 metres and 1 metre wide in full sun to part shade. It is an extremely hardy plant that is frost and drought tolerant once established and is suitable to most climates.  

Deep Purple is adapted well to most well drained soils and requires only a light tip prune occasionally to promote new growth and form a more compact plant. Deep Purple benefits from a slow release, low phosphorus fertiliser when planted initially, with occasional reapplication as appropriate. Mulching around the base of the plant will suppress weeds and help retain moisture in the soil.

Deep Purple is very versatile in its uses. Its small size makes it perfect for situations where height restrictions limit plant selection. It can be mass planted and shaped to form a low level hedge that stays lush green all year round or used as an excellent specimen plant. Deep Purple is superb for garden borders or as a pot plant or rockery plant. It is the perfect plant for any low level planting, both informal and formal and for small gardens or large-scale landscapes.

Acacia Mini Cog

Acacia cognata ‘Mini Cog’ is a dwarf form of the original Acacia cognata and was selected by Peter Goldup (plant breeder). It is now grown as a line of the Bush Magik range. Acacia Mini Cog comes highly recommended by the Retail and Landscape industry and is used as a substitute for a number of other dwarf forms of Acacia cognata, such as Acacia Limelight, Acacia Dazzler and Acacia Green Mist.

 The light green new growth of Acacia Mini Cog matures into emerald green foliage, whose weeping effect creates a stunning waterfall of different shades of green, all year round. While it is not a profusely flowering plant, pale yellow ball flowers may appear in late Winter to early Spring.

Acacia Mini Cog grows 0.75 - 1 metre high and up to 1.8 metres wide and requires little to no maintenance. Acacia Mini Cog is highly drought tolerant and is suitable for areas of full sun to part shade with well drained soil and a very low water requirement.

The weeping effect of the foliage makes this small shrub an ideal feature or border plant and it is perfect for rockeries and pots alike.

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Lomandra Mist

Released in 2011, Mist is a low growing form of Lomandra confertifolia ssp. rubiginosa with very fine, blue-grey-green, weeping foliage and a tufted habit. In Summer, beautifully fragranced, small, golden-yellow flowers emerge from purple buds, providing a stunning visual effect against the fine foliage.

Mist originated from Lomandra Grey Cascade and has taken Ian Shimmen ten years to perfect. It is more vigorous in habit than Lomandra Grey Cascade, allowing Mist to tolerate more severe conditions than its ‘parent’ plant species.

 Mist requires very low maintenance and is extremely hardy, tolerating moderate frost and dry conditions, such as periods of drought. Its small size of 0.3 - 0.5 metres high and wide make it the perfect plant for low profile plantings such as urban streetscapes, and its stunning visual effects make it an ideal feature plant or border plant. Mist also requires no pruning or maintenance, making it an even more attractive choice for areas with these requirements. As Mist requires little water once established, it is also perfect for understorey plantings. Mist can also be mass planted for erosion control.

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Lomandra Lime Tuff

Lime Tuff is a compact form of Lomandra with fine, lush, lime green foliage that never needs pruning and stays green all year round. In Summer, lightly fragranced, small, yellow-golden flowers emerge from purplish-brown buds, providing a beautiful contrast with the evergreen foliage. It grows to a height of 0.5 – 1 metre and a width of 0.5 – 0.7 metre.

Lime Tuff is a species of Lomandra longifolia x confertifolia ssp. pallida that has been growing in the gardens at Bushland Flora for more than 10 years. It has been selected for its hardiness, high frost tolerance, low water requirements once established, large range of planting conditions – such as full sun to heavy shade – and low maintenance requirement. It is suitable to plant under established trees, and mass planted for erosion control. It also makes a fantastic feature plant and is great for borders and low level plantings.

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