Top 10 Native Plants for Native Gardens

Creating a native garden seems simple enough until you come face to face with the hundreds of weird and wonderful natives available on the market. It can all get a little overwhelming!

Luckily we’re here to give you some of the best native plants for a successful native garden. We have natives for hedging, screening, features, groundcovers, climbers, flowers, edibles and topiary! Check out our huge range here!

The fun part about native gardens is that they can be combined with other garden styles such as the native cottage garden or the formal native garden. Or you can combine native with non-native plants to create your own look. The options are endless!

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Top 10 Native Plants for Native Gardens

1. Acacia ‘Limelight’
2. Correa alba
3. Westringia ‘Grey Box’
4. Grevillea ‘Mt Tamboritha’
5. Callistemon ‘Slim’
6. Syzygium ‘Straight & Narrow™’ Lilly Pilly
7. Banksia ‘Birthday Candles’
8. Corymbia ‘Baby Citro’
9. Eucalyptus ‘Silver Princess’
10. Myoporum ‘Fine Leaf’

There are so many beautiful native plants to choose from that we list had to list a few honourable mentions.

• Casuarina ‘Cousin It’
• Agonis ‘Burgundy’
• Dodonaea ‘Mr Green Sheen’
• Scleranthus ‘Lime Lava’
• Hardenbergia
• Lomandra ‘Tanika’
• Acacia ‘Lime Magik’
• Dichondra repens

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1. Acacia ‘Limelight’

Hands down the most popular and good looking native in our range. The Acacia ‘Limelight’ is self shaping with soft, fine green foliage and inconspicuous yellow pom-pom flowers (if it flowers at all!) They’re regularly used as features, garden fillers and borders. And they’re so easy to grow!

 

2. Correa alba

A beautifully simple form of correa with silver-green rounded leaves and gorgeous white star shaped flowers. Correa are incredibly hardy plants and are often used in public spaces for this reason. They make great low to medium hedges and even topiary!

 

3. Westringia ‘Grey Box’

Westringia are known as Aussie Box. Simply put they’re the best native substitute for box hedging and topiary. Their fine foliage grows fast and compact plus they produce beautiful little flowers in either pink, purple or white. The ‘Grey Box’ is a dwarf growing variety that requires very little maintenance unlike the larger types.

 

4. Grevillea ‘Mt Tamboritha’

There are many groundcover natives, particularly grevillea groundcovers but this one produces the cutest little jelly-bean like leaves in rosettes. Plus it flowers prolifically with strawberry cream coloured flowers.

 

5. Callistemon ‘Slim’

The problem with hedging is that you have to keep it well trimmed to get it looking neat. Not with the following natives! Callistemon ‘Slim’ is a special variety that grows only 1m wide making it a wonderful choice for a hedge or screen. Plus it flowers gorgeous red bottlebrush flowers for most of the year.

 

6. Syzygium ‘Straight and Narrow™‘ Lilly Pilly

‘Straight and Narrow’ grows just as the same suggests – straight and narrow! Another low maintenance hedge that you barely have to trim to keep it looking fabulous. Lilly Pilly are a beautiful, dense foliage plant that are suitable not only for native gardens but for formal and Hampton style gardens as well.

 

7. Banksia ‘Birthday Candles’

Not only is this Banksia a beautiful feature and cut flower specimen but it can also double as a groundcover. ‘Birthday Candles’ looks wonderful planted over a retaining wall and amongst large rocks. The large flowers attract birds and have a long blooming period.

 

8. Corymbia ‘Baby Citro’

Just like the larger Lemon Scented Gum, the Baby Citro has deliciously lemon scented foliage and smooth white bark. Unlike the larger version, this tree is suitable for small backyards as it only grow 5-6m tall. A perfect feature or shade tree for the native garden!

 

9. Eucalyptus ‘Silver Princess’

A popular feature tree for the small native garden is the Eucalyptus ‘Silver Princess’. It’s long, white weeping branches, large drooping leaves and fluffy red flowers make it a very eye-catching centre-piece!

 

10. Myoporum ‘Fine Leaf’

As groundcovers come you can’t get one any hardier than Myoporum ‘Fine Leaf’. This little toughie grows very low and close to the ground, often smothering out weeds. Myoporum is used to strengthen soil on slopes and grown over retaining walls. It has tiny, white star shaped flowers.