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Sunshine Coast Open Space Landscape Infrastructure Manual Planting www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au Index (INDEX) 1.0 Overview ................................................................................................................................. 2 2.0 Explanatory notes for planting palette index ............................................................. 3 3.0 Index 6 Large / Tall Trees ....................................................................................................................... 7 Medium Trees .......................................................................................................................... 16 Small Trees ............................................................................................................................. 22 Large Shrubs ........................................................................................................................... 29 Small to Medium Shrubs ......................................................................................................... 34 Groundcovers, Borders and Tufted or Clumping Plants .......................................................... 40 Palms, Pandans, Cordylines, Cycads and Grass Trees .......................................................... 46 Ferns........................................................................................................................................48 Climbers...................................................................................................................................50 Turf Grasses ............................................................................................................................ 51 Sedges, Reeds, Rushes and Other Wetland Edge Plants ...................................................... 52 Also see: Information sheet (INFO) If this page has been printed, it is out of date. © Sunshine Coast Regional Council 2009-Present. Palettes April 2021 1.0 Overview This category of the LIM has been developed to provide guidance for the selection of species for planting. The palette section includes: • Explanatory notes for Planting Palette index • Planting Palette index (list of plants). www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au Important notes: • This resource does not try to replicate all of the provisions of Legislation, Australian Standards (AS) and corporate documentation in words and pictures, nor does it seek to define their requirements. • It aims to draw attention to the fact that effectively applied technical requirements translate into desirable qualities for end users. • Product design, manufacture and installation require an appropriately qualified professional to provide site specific solutions. For further information see: • LIM Preliminaries • LIM Planting (landscape) • LIM Planting (revegetation). • Sunshine Coast Street Tree Master Plan If this page has been printed, it is out of date. © Sunshine Coast Regional Council 2009-Present. Sunshine Coast Open Space Landscape Infrastructure Manual April 2021 Planting 2 INDEX 2.0 Explanatory notes for planting palette index The explanatory notes provided, apply to the • Large shrubs – mature height greater than 2.5m - Plant names following planting index. 3.0m, suitable for larger spaces, visual and noise- attenuation screen plantings. • Botanical and common names are provided. Botanical names are correct at March 2021, but Plant type • Small to medium shrubs – mature height may be subject to change. To check currency, less than about 2.5m, suitable for smaller (and Plants are listed in structural / design categories. refer to the Census of Queensland Flora on the pedestrian scale) spaces, massed groundcover Queensland Government - Environment, land and Suitability for purpose can be checked against the plantings, and for situations where site visibility ‘landscape uses’ and ‘constraints’ parameters. water - Plants website. For current plant names is of particular importance (CPTED and traffic and registered cultivars, refer also to the Australian • Large / tall trees – mature height greater than safety issues). National Botanic Gardens website. about 15m -18m, suitable where space is relatively • Groundcovers – (including borders and tufted or www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au unlimited – e.g. parks and reserves, and rural clumping plants) – mature height of less than 1.0m or other wide road verges subject to no conflict and either ground-hugging or clumping in habit. Plant origin with property boundaries, structures or overhead Some may also be suitable as climbers. • Australian native – species is native to Australia, power lines and underground services. May also • Palms, pandanus, cordylines, cycads and but not locally native to the Sunshine Coast. A few be suitable for large roundabouts and wide road grass trees – accent plants of various sizes and species may also be native to other countries. medians, in accordance with the Sunshine Coast architecturally interesting form. • Sunshine Coast native – species is native to Street Tree Master Plan. • Ferns – in-ground and epiphytic forms of various Australia and locally native to the Sunshine Coast. • Medium trees – mature height of between about sizes, suitable for shady moist areas. • Introduced exotic – species is not native to 8.0m -10m and 15m -18m, generally with a more • Climbers – of vertical twining habit requiring Australia. finite / contained growth pattern than large trees. support structures such as fences, pergolas, Require adequate space for optimal development, arbours and trellises. Some also suitable as Plant size but more adaptable to spatial restriction than larger groundcovers. trees. • Mature heights and widths shown are indicative • Turf grasses – exotic turf species suitable for due to natural plant variation, planting location • Small trees – mature height of less than about active and passive recreation areas. 8.0m -10m, suitable where space is limited and/or and site conditions. Many Australian native plants there are overhead or underground services. May • Wetland plants – low sedge-like plants suitable for (especially rainforest trees) are much smaller in also be suitable for parks, streets, car parks and pond and lake edges, reconstructed wetlands, bio- cultivation than in their natural habitat. The matrix road medians, in accordance with the Sunshine retention basins / batters, flood mitigation works, shows maximum likely size in cultivation. The Coast Street Tree Master Plan. and for grey-water polishing (uptake of excess ‘comments’ section notes maximum known size in water and nutrients). Note: Sunshine Coast local natural habitats. native species only, to avoid water dispersal of If this page has been printed, it is out of date. © Sunshine Coast Regional Council 2009-Present. potentially invasive species. Sunshine Coast Open Space Landscape Infrastructure Manual April 2021 Planting 3 INDEX Planting zones Tolerances Landscape uses Broadly, coastal zones are considered to be east of Plant tolerance to soil compaction and/or water These include uses other than those implied by plant the Bruce Highway, and hinterland zones west of it and content: types and are most applicable to trees: at higher elevation (e.g. mountains, Maleny Plateau, • Drought tolerant – plant tolerates lengthy periods • Park – tree suitable for one or more of the Blackall Range). However, hinterland-like areas also of little or no water. following: large recreational spaces, conservation occur east of the highway (such as Buderim, Eumundi, • Well drained – soil receives adequate water and is reserves, bush regeneration, shade, feature, Ninderry). free draining (usually sandy or loamy, friable). habitat, cultural or memorial significance. Most • Coastal exposed – areas immediately adjacent • Moist – plant tolerates soil which is moist for large trees unsuited to roadside plantings will be to the coast and subject to salt-laden winds, and lengthy periods but has reasonable drainage (can suited to parks and larger road reserve areas where www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au seaside streets generally running in an east-west be friable but may lack aeration, depending on constraints are fewer. direction. Includes semi-exposed seaside streets structure and organic content). • Road – variously sized tree species of attractive generally running in a north-south direction, or • Poorly drained – plant tolerates soil which is form and clear trunk (which may be achieved sites protected by other vegetation e.g. Banksias, frequently to permanently wet or boggy (often clay). through formative pruning), providing amenity Pandanus, Casuarinas, with built and natural forms to roads and shade to pedestrians without • Compacted and / or poorly aerated – plant offering some protection from salt-laden winds. significant risk of damaging kerbs and footpaths or tolerates soil (including fill) which has been • Coastal protected – areas sufficiently distanced conflicting with property boundaries or overhead compacted, is consequently poorly aerated and from the foreshore to afford medium to full and underground services. Most are suitable for therefore either moisture-resistant or overly protection against salt-laden winds. parks. May also be suitable for car parks. Generally moisture-retentive (usually clays, heavier soils or of lower height and less invasive root systems • Hinterland exposed – relatively clear areas which subsoils displaced by prior site works). are exposed to sun and / or wind. than species proposed for parks only. Deciduous trees are