Native shrubs

We love all native shrubs! But we also have our favourites. We love these plants because they're beautiful, easy to grow, and easy to maintain.

• Grevillea flamingo: A fast growing shrub with dark green foliage. It blooms with large pink flowers throughout the whole year, attracting wildlife and increasing the biodiversity of your garden.
• Callistemon Bottlebrush: This is one of the most emblematic Australian native shrubs. It's easy to maintain, and will reward you with its bottlebrush-shaped flowers during spring and summer.
• Ivory curl: Flowering in autumn with long creamy flowerheads, this is a beautiful low maintenance feature plant.
• Lilac hibiscus: Also known as native hibiscus, this shrub showcases stunning mauve purple flowers. It adapts to all types of soils, and thrives in open, sunny positions.
• Waratah: This spring-flowering Aussie native is so beautiful, it's the New South Wales floral emblem. Their large red flowers are supported by long serrated, dark-green leaves. This shrub has minimal problems with pests, and well-draining soils will help protect them from diseases.
• Woolly bush: Featuring silver coloured foliage and red flowers once it matures, the woolly bush shrub makes a wonderful feature plant in any garden. It has a compact growing habit, which makes it great for screening and shade, too.
• Thyme Honey Myrtle: This low maintenance plant tolerates frost and drought, and rewards the gardener with purple flowers throughout the year. It's spicy perfume and sweet nectar attracts wildlife such as insects and birds.
• Flinders Ranges wattle: A medium to large shrub, the Flinders Ranges wattle features long, narrow leaves which can droop down like a weeping willow when allowed to grow long enough. They showcase pale yellow flowers in spring. The flowers are so beautiful that many tourists make their way to the region to see them every year.
• Silky Eremophila: This native shrub features silvery foliage and purple tubular flowers in spring and summer. While it traditionally grows better in drier areas, it has been propagated to acclimatise to Melbourne's weather and soil conditions.

Some native shrubs are easy to take care of, and others require a little extra love and attention. Regardless of the species, however, there are some general rules to follow to get the best out of your plants.

Planting: After you've planted your native shrubs, you'll need to water them well in the following weeks while they establish roots.

Feeding: If you want to give your  plants to grow into healthy, mature shrubs, you can apply a little fertiliser to give them a boost. To find out which product is best for your shrub species, ask the team at All Green.

Mulching: Covering the base of roots during colder seasons can help protect your native shrub from ground frost.

Pruning: Prune your plants just after they've finished flowering for the season. This way, the bush will keep its shape, and nutrients from soil and water will go to the parts of the plant that need it most.

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