Great Indigenous for Creating a Sensory Plants to ‘Touch’ Lightwood Hedge Wattle Acacia implexa Acacia paradoxa

Graceful tree with Dense prickly shrub open crown, rough to 2.5m high X 2m fissured bark, 15m wide, abundant yellow high x 4-5m wide, flowers in late Winter. fast growing, Excellent small bird masses of creamy habitat. Drought coloured flowers in tolerant, good summer. A good hedging . feature tree. Great to touch because Great to touch because it has it has prickly stems. rough and cracked bark

Prickly Moses Black She-oak Acacia Allocasuarina verticillata litoralis

Large, dense, prickly shrub to 4m, Small tree to 8m x attracting arching 5m with sometimes branches support conical form, Bark masses of pale becomes deeply yellow flowers in furrowed in older Spring. Fantastic trees, females have small bird habitat small cones Great to touch because it and ideal as a dense Great to touch because it containing many seeds. has prickly leaves screen or hedge has rough cones Drooping She-oak River Bottlebrush Allocasuarina Callistemon sieberi verticillata Medium shrub 2-3m X 2- 3m, open dense weeping shrub with cream to pink Medium sized tree to flowers in summer and 10m high x 5m wide with autumn. Bird and dense rounded canopy.. butterfly attracting. Very Female bears cones, good screening plant. male yellow-brown tassels. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has rough cones has tough foliage Tall Sedge Carex appressa Curly Sedge Carex tasmanica Robust sedge to 1.5m Rare tufting sedge high x 1.5m wide. occurring in the Bird attracting, good Melbourne area, bank stabiliser. growing to 40cm x Provides food for 40cm. Foliage seed eating birds develops attractive curly tips which dry and contrast against other foliage. Great to touch because Great to touch because it it has sharp foliage has curly leaf tips Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Inland Noon Common Flower Everlasting Daisy Carpobrotus Chrysocephalm modestus apiculatum

Robust, succulent Attractive long flowering groundcover to 10cm daisy. Masses of small high and spreading. yellow everlasting daisy Forms very dense type flowers occur mats. Bright pink October through flowers in spring and February, drought early summer. Fruit tolerant, butterfly Great to touch because it is edible. Great to touch because it attracting. has succulent leaves has hairy leaves Small Leaf Clematis Clematis aristata Clematis microphylla

Vigorous climber to 5 metres with masses of creamy coloured fragrant flowers in July and feathery fruits on female plants. Very hardy and drought tolerant plants which are adaptable to most soils. Great to touch because Great to touch because it it has furry seed heads has furry seed heads Hakea decurrens Prickly Currant Bush Coprosma quadrifida

Open upright spiny shrub to 4m x 3m wide. Red edible sweet flavoured drupes appear n spring and early summer. Prefers moist Great to touch because it soils in a semi shaded Great to touch because it has prickly stems position has prickly leaves

Water Buttons Silky Blue Grass Cotula Dicantheum coronopifolia sericium

Semi aquatic creeping Erect tussockgrass to and spreading 80cm high with highly perennial herb with decorative blue- grey yellow button disc like foliage. Prefers dry flowers in Spring and and clay soils in well Summer. drained, full sun Copes well in saline position. Responds well conditions and to summer watering. Great to touch because bog/pond habitats. Great to touch because it it has waxy foliage Good frog habitat. has soft grassy foliage Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Tall Spike Rush Blue Devil Eleocharis Eryngium ovinum sphacelata Very attractive thistle Large, robust semi aquatic type plant, quite prickly rush to 3m high and with masses of prickly spreading. Excellent for electric blue flower revegetation and large heads in summer. Dies dams, providing waterbird back after flowering habitat and preventing wave and re- shoots in erosion. Autumn after rain. Full Copes with inundation to 1 sun, heavy soils. metre. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has a very prickly flower has segmented hollow River Red Gum Long Leaf Box Eucalyptus Eucalyptus goniocalyx camaldulensis Fast growing tree with rough Large spreading tree to 50m bark, crooked trunk and large high x 35m wide. Suitable for rounded canopy. Drought large yards or farms. Prefers tolerant. Honey producing moist alluvial soil but adapts cream coloured flowers in to most situations. Drought Autumn. tolerant. Good habitat for wildlife

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Red Ironbark Knobby Club Rush Eucalyptus tricarpa Ficinia nodosa (syn. Isolepis Upright to spreading tree nodosa) with open crown to 30m high x 20m wide. Perennial sedge forming Requires well drained dense rounded clumps 1m soil but is drought x 1m wide. Structural tolerant. Produces plant ideal for copious amounts of landscaping and border nectar in Spring and is plantings. Very hardy, important in honey prefers moist soils but production. tolerates dryness once Great to touch because it has Great to touch because it established.. deeply cracked, rough bark. has knobby heads on stems.

SHEILD PENNYWORT Gahnia sieberiana Hydrocotyle verticillata Creeping perennial herb to 30cm high and spreading. Requires wet or boggy soil in full sun to semi shade. An attractive border plant for a small pond. Good frog habitat. Great to touch because Great to touch because it has sharp leaves it has waxy leaves Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Red Anther Wallaby Prickly Tea Tree Grass Leptospermum Joycea pallida continentale

Tufted perennial grass Dense shrub to to 40cm high x 50cm 3m, prickly foliage wide. Tolerates poor encourages small soils low in nutrients birds. Flowers in a semi shaded or October to March. full sun position. Dry Tolerates dry well drained soils. soils, full sun to Tolerates periods of semi shade. wetness. Butterfly Great to touch because it attracting. Great to touch because it has narrow, dry leaves has narrow, dry leaves Native Flax Spiny Headed Mat Linum marginale Rush Lomandra longifolia Perennial herb subsp. Longifolia forming slender Large tussock forming clumps to 60cm high. plant with strap like Bright blue flowers in leaves to 1m x 1m. spring and summer. Cream flower spikes in Very adaptable. Cut spring. Very back hard in Autumn adaptable and reliable to encourage growth. in most situations, Self seeds readily. grows best with some moisture, drought Great to touch because it Great to touch because tolerant. has tough, stringy steams it has strappy leaves

Short-leaf Blue Bush Tree Violet Maireana brevifolia Melicytus dentatus Open shrub to 2m x Erect, sometimes dense 2m. Small sweetly shrub with succulent scented flowers appear leaves to 1m x 1m. along stems in Spring Small greenish flowers followed by small followed by pinkish purple berries. Prickly winged fruit. Ideal for stems provide shelter dry well drained soils, for birds. Adaptable, salt tolerant. drought tolerant. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has succulent leaves has prickly steams

Water Milfoil Short-leaf Blue Bush Myriophyllum crispatum Nicotiana suaveolens Submerged aquatic plant growing in water to 1m deep. Excellent habitat plant for tadpoles, invertebrates and small fish. Good oxygenator. Can cope with drying out but soil must be moist.

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Pandorea pandorana Common Tussock Grass Poa labillardieri Large dense tussock grass to 1m x 1m. Fast growing and adaptable to most soils and positions. Can be used in rockeries, besides ponds or among established plants. Great to touch because it Butterfly attracting. has a waxy seed pods Great to touch because it has tough stringy leaves

Mutton Wood Native Raspberry Rapanea howittiana Rubus parvifolius

Dense upright or Rambling small shrub or spreading shrub to 5m trailing small plant to 1m high X 3m wide, high x 2m wide. A hardy abundant purple berries plant preferring moist in summer. Moist well but well drained soils. drained soils, full sun to Pink flowers in spring full shade. Slow growing, and summer followed by good substitute for sweet red edible berries. pittosporum spp. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has hard purple berries has a waxy seed pods

Rumex brownii Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani

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Glandular Pink Bells Water Ribbons Tetratheca labillardieri Triglochin procera

Clumping, sometimes Robust aquatic perennial spreading low shrub to herb with ribbon like 60cm x 60cm. Showy floating leaves to 1m fragrant pink flowers long. Attractive in water with black centres in can be grown in Winter and Spring. water up to 1m deep. Prefers moist soils in Produces masses of sheltered position likes edible white starchy summer moisture. tubers. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has sticky leaves has large bulbous tubers Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden

Golden Spray

Villarsia reniformis Viminaria juncea

Open spreading shrub to 4m high X 2m wide, abundant yellow flowers in Spring. Moist to well drained soils, full sun to part shade. Copes with poorly drained sites. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has large waxy leaves has fissured bark

Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden

Spreading Flax Plants to ‘Hear’ Lilly Dianella admixta

A clumping lily with deep blue flowers in Spring and early Summer on stems to 1m high and spreading. Very drought tolerant but adaptable to most Great to hear because it conditions. has rattling seed pods. Can be planted under trees.

Black She-oak Allocasuarina Narrow Leaf Bitter litoralis Pea Daviesia leptophylla

Small tree to 8m x Open erect shrub to 5m with sometimes 1.2m high X 1m wide. conical form, Bark Racemes or yellow and becomes deeply red flowers in spring. furrowed in older Butterfly attracting. trees, females have Prefers dry well small cones drained soils in semi Great to hear because containing many shaded situation. wind whistles through the seeds. Great to hear because it branches has rattling seed pods. Western Golden Tip Golden Tip Goodia Goodia lotifolia medicaginea

Dense to open shrub Open shrub 1.5 x 1.5m. 3m x 3m. Yellow and Yellow and red pea red pea flowers appear flowers appear in in profusion in spring profusion in spring and and stems remain red. stems remain red. Prefers moist well Prefers well drained soils drained soils in a in a sunny position and is sunny position. Good good on clay soils. screening plant. Great to hear because it Great to hear because it Centre piece for rockeries. has rattling seed pods. has rattling seed pods.

Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Ruby Salt Bush Plants to ‘Taste’ Enchylaena tomentosa

Flat-lying plant to 1m wide x 30cm high. Ideal rockery plant or for very dry exposed sites. Requires good drainage and is drought tolerant. Edible red berries in late summer. Great to taste because it has edible fruit. Narrowleaf Black Wattle Bitter Pea Acacia mearnsii Daviesia leptophylla Fast growing tree up to 15m x 4m wide. Very Medium sized open adaptable tolerating erect shrub with most soil types. yellow and red flowers Prefers open position in spring. in full sun. Great Butterfly attracting. habitat tree. Provides Prefers dry well food for many animals. drained soils in semi Great to taste Good shade tree. Great to taste because shaded situation.. because it has sap. it has edible fruit.

Matted Flax Lilly Flax Lilly Dianella amoena Dianella brevicaulis Tufted mat forming perennial lily to 45cn Small dense tufting high and 1m wide. Small perennial lily with loose panicles of small clusters of small blue sweetly scented pale to flowers on open stems deep violet flowers in amongst the foliage. summer. Well drained Flowers in spring and soils in full sun. summer followed by edible blue berries. rockeries. Great to taste because it Great to taste because it Butterfly attracting. has edible fruit. has edible fruit.

Nodding Salt Bush Berry Saltbush Einadia nutans Einadia hastata

Perennial Dense perennial groundcover to 40cm shrub 40cm high and high unless climbing 1 metre wide. Small to 1m. Numerous red berries appear in small red edible summer. Very berries appear in drough/salt tolerant spring and summer. preferring full sun in Prefers full sun in a a dry well drained dry well drained soil. soil. Great to taste because it Great to taste because has edible fruit. it has edible fruit. Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Honey Pots Black She-oak Acrotriche Allocasuarina serrulata litoralis

Small tree to 8m Slow growing dense, ground covering x 5m with shrub growing 10cm sometimes high and up to 1m conical form, wide. Flowers are Bark becomes loaded with sweet deeply furrowed caramel flavoured in older trees, nectar in winter and females have spring. Prefers well small cones Great to taste because chewing Great to taste because drained soils. containing many it has sweet flavours the leaves can quench your thirst seeds. Sea Celery Berry Salt Bush Apium prostratum Atriplex semibaccata

Trailing perennial Prostrate perennial shrub, herb to 40cm high 30cm high x spreading. spreading. Tiny Drought tolerant, grows cream flowers in well in hot dry position. spring. Prefers moist Adaptable to most soil to boggy soils. May types. Small red berries in be used as a celery Summer are edible and substitute. attract skinks and birds.

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Common Apple Berry Sea Club Rush Billardiera scandens Bolboschoenus caldwellii

Adaptable light climber, Erect, rhizomatous bushier if grown in an spreading, semi aquatic open aspect. Greenish rush to 1m high at edge of yellow tubular flowers water. Foliage dies down throughout the year in winter. Tuberous roots followed by edible berries. Drought resistant prefers are edible. Suitable for well drained soil. fresh or brackish water on clay or sandy soils. Great to taste because Great to taste because it has edible fruit it has edible tuber

Marsh Club-Rush Inland Moon Flower Bolboschoenus Carpobrotus modestus medianus Robust, succulent Erect, rhizomatous groundcover to 10cm spreading, semi aquatic high and spreading. rush to 2`m high at edge of Forms very dense mats. water. Foliage dies down Bright pink flowers in in winter. Tuberous roots spring and early summer. are edible. Suitable for Fruit is edible. Dry soils, fresh or brackish water on tolerating hot exposed position. Great to taste because clay or sandy soils. Great to taste because ot has edible tuber it has edible fruits Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden PRICKLY SPREADING FLAX CURRANT BUSH LILY Coprosma quadrifida Dianella admixta

Open upright spiny A clumping lily with shrub to 4m x 3m wide. deep blue flowers in Reddish orange edible Spring and early sweet flavoured drupes Summer on stems to 1m appear in spring and high and spreading, early summer. Prefers very drought tolerant, moist soils in a semi adaptable to most Great to taste because shaded position. Great to taste because conditions, can be planted under trees. it has edible sweet fruit it has Edible Fruit River Mint Pale Flax Lily Mentha Australis Dianella laevis 50cm H x 1mW, Large perennial lily ideal for boggy area, forming a tight tolerates drying out tussock to 1mx 1m. once established. Prefers moist, well Fragrant medicinal drained soils in semi herb, pink flowers, shade to full sun. edges of ponds and Massed purple and around taps. yellow flowers are Great to taste because followed by edible Great to taste because it it has edible fruit blue berries makes a soothing tea Native Raspberry Mountain Pepper Rubus parvifolius Tasmannia

Rambling small shrub or lanceolata trailing small plant to 1m high x 2m wide. A hardy Erect shrub or small plant preferring moist tree to 5m x3m. Leaves but well drained soils. and fruits are aromatic Pink flowers in spring are hot tasting and used and summer followed by in cooking. Needs moist sweet red edible berries soils, and prefers a cool shady position Great to taste because Great to taste because it it has edible berries has hot peppery leaves

Water Ribbons Large Kangaroo Triglochin procera Apple Robust aquatic perennial Solanum aviculare herb with ribbon like floating leaves to 1m Extremely fast growing long. Attractive in water screening shrub to gardens can be grown in 3mx3m, attractive water up to 1m deep. purple flowers to 5cm Produces masses of followed by orange/red edible white starchy berries. Bird tubers. attracting, very Great to taste because Great to taste because of adaptable. it has edible tubers edible orange berries Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Kangaroo Apple Solanum Laciniatum

Extremely fast growing screening shrub to 3mx3m, attractive purple flowers to 5cm followed by orange berries. Bird attracting, very adaptable. Great to taste because of edible orange berries

Plants to ‘Smell’ Acacia dealbata SILVER WATTLE

Fast growing tree to 10 m high x 15 m wide. Pale yellow perfumed flowers in Winter, prefers moist sheltered position. Gliders eat the sap.

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Sweet Hounds Native Hemp Tongue Bush Cynoglossum Gynatrix pulchella suaveolens Open woody shrub Small erect to developing a rounded spreading crown from a single perennial herb with trunk to 4m x 3m wide. tiny, highly Prefers well drained fragrant white but moist soil in a semi flowers in summer. shaded to full sun Ideal for rockeries position. Scented Great to smell because and prefers well Great to smell because cream flowers in it has highly fragrant drained heavy soils of it’s perfumed flowers Spring. flowers in open position. Rock Correa Sea Celery Apium prostratum Correa glabra Trailing perennial Fast growing and herb to 40cm high dense medium sized spreading. Tiny shrub with nectar rich cream flowers in tubular flowers from spring. Prefers moist February to to boggy soils. May September. be used as a celery Bird attracting and, substitute. adaptable to most Great to smell because it soils. has citrus scented foliage Great to smell because of parsley scented foliage Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Chocolate Lily Bulbine Lily Arthropodium Bulbine bulbosa strictum Tufted perennial, Tufted Lily with dyes back to edible branched spike of tubers in Summer, re purple, chocolate sprouts in Autumn, scented flowers Drought tolerant, Spring and Summer. prefers some Prefers semi shade moisture, full sun with some moisture. Great to smell because of Great to smell because chocolate scented flowers of sweet scented flowers Milky Beauty Heads

Calocephalus lacteus Common Cassinia Cassinia aculeata Prostrate perennial with Open shrub to 2m high, aromatic silver grey aromatic leaves, flower leaves to 1.5m wide. clusters in Summer, Cream to white flowers well drained soils, full in summer. Prefers sun to semi shade, fast moist soils in sun or growing screening semi. plant.

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Chinese Cassinia Shiny Cassinia Cassinia arcuata Cassinia longifolia

Tight shrub to 2m high, Open spreading shrub to aromatic leaves, 2m high X 2m wide, hanging flower clusters abundant white umbels in in Summer, well Spring and Summer. Well drained soils, full sun drained soils, full sun to to semi shade, fast part shade. Colonising growing colonising species, easily plant. established. Great to smell because Great to smell because of curry scented foliage of curry scented foliage Common Sneeze Weed Sweet Hound’s Centipeda Tongue Cunninghamii Cynoglossum suaveolens Small fast growing perennial herb to 40cm Small erect to spreading high x 20cm wide. perennial herb 40cm x Prefers moist soils 40cm. Tiny white flowers tolerating shallow in summer which are inundation. A medicinal highly fragrant. Ideal for plant used for colds by rockeries. Prefers well Great to smell because aborigines. drained heavy soil in open position. of scented foliage Great to smell because of strongly scented flowers Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Burgan Prickly Tea-Tree Kunzea Leptospermum Leptosphermoides continentale

Dense shrub with Dense shrub to 3m, aromatic leaves. prickly foliage Sometimes developing encourages small weeping habit to 2m x birds. Flowers 2m. Profuse white October to March. flowers in summer. Tolerates dry soils, Butterfly attracting. full sun to semi Prefers open position shade. Great to smell because it has in moist, well drained Great to smell because it has tea-tree scented foliage soil. tea-tree scented foliage Woolly Tea-Tree Heath Tea-Tree Leptospermum Leptospermum langierum myrsinoides

Dense shrub to 2.5m Dense shrub to 2m x X 2.5m, Weeping habit and silvery new 2m. Flowers growth. Flowers October to March. October to March. Tolerates dry soils, Prefers some moisture full sun to semi in soil, full sun to semi shade. Prefers a shade. well drained Great to smell because it has Great to smell because it has sheltered position. tea-tree scented foliage tea-tree scented foliage Good low screen. River Tea-Tree Leptospermum Leptospermum scoparium obovatum

Dense erect shrub to 3m x 2m, aromatic leaves. A dense screen suited to moist soils, copes with drying out in summer. Creamy white flowers in Great to smell because it has summer. Great to smell because it has tea-tree scented foliage tea-tree scented foliage

Lycopus australia Swamp Paperback Melaleuca ericifolia

Dense riparian shrub to 8m, cream flowers Oct-Nov. Moist soils tolerates drying once established, semi shade to full sun, bird attracting.

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River Mint Dusty Daisy Mentha Australis Bush Olearia 50cm H x 1mW, phlogopappa ideal for boggy area, tolerates drying out Fast growing open to dense shrub 2m x 2m, once established. masses of white, pink, Fragrant medicinal blue or mauve flower herb, pink flowers, heads in Spring. edges of ponds and Prefers well drained around taps. soils, full sun to part Great to smell because Great to smell because it has shade. of mint scented foliage strongly scented flowers Austral Stokes Bill Grey Everlasting Pelargonium Ozothamnus australe obcordatus Very attractive foliage Slender erect shrub to changing colours with 1m x 1m. Numerous the seasons, adds colour dense clusters of small to a . yellow tubular flowers Hardy suited to most in summer. Butterfly soils and positions. attracting preferring Pink flowers drier well drained Great to smell because it soils. Great to smell because it has has curry scented flowers Geranium scented foliage Victorian Balm Mint Bush Christmas Bush Prostanthera Prostanthera mellisifolia lasianthos Fast growing, dense Large upright shrub rounded shrub to 2m x to 8m. Flowers 2m. Mauve to pink November to January, flowers cover the spectacular in flower. shrub in spring. Bird attracting, suited Excellent for a moist to moist shady site. sheltered position.

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Mountain Pepper Forest Germander Tasmannia Teucrium lanceolata corymbosum

Erect perennial herb to 1 Erect shrub or small metre high x 60cm wide. tree to 5m x3m. Leaves Attractive white flowers in and fruits are aromatic Summer. Requires moist, are hot tasting and used well drained soils. Regular in cooking. Needs moist will maintain a soils, and prefers a cool tidy shape. Rare in shady position Melbourne area. Great to taste because it Great to smell because has hot peppery leaves it has scented foliage