Archive for the 'Drought Tolerant Plants' Category

Olearia passerinoides is a mallee daisy and is quite a large bush with bright green leaves, different to many mallee daisies which often have grey green leaves. Although this is a shrub, to me it behaves as a perennial shrub, in that new growth appears along the older wood. The bush has a tendency to [...]

I found another good photo of this suckering plant which spreads by underground shoots form the root stock. It is a good hardy plant to have in a perennial border. It is easily kept confined. It is drought tolerant and frost hardy and grows in lime soils.

Calocephalus citreus is a small member of the daisy family, growing 20-50 cm high by 30-60 cm wide. It has silver grey foliage and small, yellow button type flowerheads in late Spring to Summer. The photo was taken in early January at Canberra Botanic Gardens. This plant is perennial and should be pruned after flowering [...]

We had lunch at Murrayville in Western Victoria at a rest area and this Eremophila formed a screen on one side of the picnic table. I am not really sure whether it is a hybrid, but it has the look of Eremophila oppositifolia, but then again, not quite. So I am assuming it is a [...]

This lovely shrub is very hardy and well worth a place in a shrubbery. It can grow to 2m high and 3 m wide although I have never seen this size in garden conditions. It can be pruned and this will keep it to a reasonable size. There are large, red pea shaped flowers very [...]