Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden Plants to ‘Touch’ Lightwood Hedge Wattle Acacia Implexa Acacia Paradoxa
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Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden 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 plant. 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 Great to touch because Great to touch because it has a very smooth it has a very rough 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. Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has a lacy texture has large, hairy leaves Great Indigenous Plants for Creating a Sensory Garden 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 Great to touch because it Great to touch because it has large leaves has long smooth stems 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 gardens 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.