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EUCALYPTUS Kruseana - Kruses's Bookleaf Mallee
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EUCALYPTUS Kruseana - Kruses's Bookleaf Mallee

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Small to medium spreading mallee. Very attractive, unique specimen plant. smooth bark; rounded, silver/blue leaves crowded along branches, often used by florists.

EREMOPHILA Maculata - Carmine Star™
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EREMOPHILA Maculata - Carmine Star™

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Low spreading shrub 8’ tall. Its leaves are thread-like to almost circular but are nearly always glabrous.

The flower colour often varies even within a single population and may be pink, mauve, red, orange or yellow, often spotted on the inside.

ACACIA cultriformis - Knife Leaf Wattle
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ACACIA cultriformis - Knife Leaf Wattle

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Attractive bush grows 6'-8' tall x 6' wide.

  • Hardy xeriscape specimen, bluish green phyllodes are almost triangular, featuring red tips.

  • Bright yellow globular flower heads produced in racemes during spring.

  • Open branched habit.

  • Feature plant useful backgrounds screen.

EREMOPHILA Decipiens - Slender Fushia Emu
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EREMOPHILA Decipiens - Slender Fushia Emu

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The slender fuchsia is a showy desert plant.

  • This short evergreen shrub has upright branches and vibrant scarlet tubular flowers in winter.

  • It tolerates intense heat, drought, wind and light freezes.

  • Hummingbirds will frequent the blossoms.

  • Slender fuchsia can be grown in hot, dry soils in full sun and requires no irrigation once it’s established.

EREMOPHILA Brevifolia - Outback Valentine ™
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EREMOPHILA Brevifolia - Outback Valentine ™

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Upright small/medium shrub, 8’Hx 6'W.

  • Profuse cerise pink flowers in late winter into spring. 

  • Hummingbird attractive. Soft dark green leaves.

  • Hardy desert bush.

  • Neat plant by pools.

  • Drought and frost tolerant.

  • Responds well to pruning after flowering.  

EREMOPHILA Glabra - Fire and Ice™
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EREMOPHILA Glabra - Fire and Ice™

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Produces bright red/orange flowers winter to summer.

  • Striking silver-grey foliage all year. Great for hummingbird landscape design areas.

  • Plant as a color accent specimen in and around trees and shrubs, also in patio garden planters.

  • Prefers full sun. 

EREMOPHILA Prostrata - Outback Sunrise™
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EREMOPHILA Prostrata - Outback Sunrise™

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Deep green foliage contrasts beautifully with bright yellow trumpet like flowers throughout spring and summer. Hummingbird attractive. Full sun; salt, drought and cold tolerant.

MELALEUCA Decussata - Cross Leaved Honey Myrtle™
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MELALEUCA Decussata - Cross Leaved Honey Myrtle™

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Medium shrub, 4-6’. Neat grey foliage, soft pink, mauve or white flowers in spring.

Very hardy and fast growing. Good screening plant.

EREMOPHILA Racemosa - Easter Egg™
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EREMOPHILA Racemosa - Easter Egg™

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Compact medium shrub, 4’x 4’. Profuse winter/ spring flowers, buds start yellow, deepen to orange, and eventually mature to pink and purple.

EREMOPHILA Maculata - Outback Bush fire™ Spotted Emu Bush
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EREMOPHILA Maculata - Outback Bush fire™ Spotted Emu Bush

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Narrow shiny green leaves and spotted long red tubular flowers winter and spring, followed by glossy oval fruits.

Grows well in light to medium soil in full sun or partial shade, an attractive rockery and tub plant.

EREMOPHILA Maculata - Pink Lady
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EREMOPHILA Maculata - Pink Lady

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Medium upright shrub, 6’x6‘, with abundant pink flowers.
Stems are more angular rather than weeping effect.
Very drought tolerant, rugged plant.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis - CV01 Slim™
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CALLISTEMON Viminalis - CV01 Slim™

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A unique Callistemon with a narrow slimline growth habit
• Great as a screen or hedge
• Takes up less space

Slim will provide landscape gardeners with a beautiful flowering bottle-brush that can be used in tight planting areas such as thin garden beds, along a fence line or a wall.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis spp. Nana - Captain Cook™ Bottle-brush
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CALLISTEMON Viminalis spp. Nana - Captain Cook™ Bottle-brush

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Medium bushy shrub 6'x6'.

Spectacular, abundant red bottle-brush flowers.

Blooms spring-summer.

Pendulous soft foliage.

Hardy in full sun producing shade for ground covers.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis ‘LJ1’- Better John TM
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CALLISTEMON Viminalis ‘LJ1’- Better John TM

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Better John is a seedling selection of the dwarf bottle-brush C. ‘Little John’ and was selected for improved plant vigour, its “blue” foliage colour, and because it exhibited a more dense foliage canopy.

CALLISTEMON Viminalis ‘LJ23’ - Green John
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CALLISTEMON Viminalis ‘LJ23’ - Green John

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Compact, dwarf, low round form.

Tight deep greyish green foliage.

Abundant deep red bottle-brush spring to fall.

Excellent patio plant.

Border and rockery feature.

Full sun adapts to clay/sandy soils.

THEMADA Australis - Blue Roo PPAP
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THEMADA Australis - Blue Roo PPAP

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Introducing a prostrate form of kangaroo grass, selected for its dense growth habit, great grey-blue to maroon foliage and low-growing habit.

A seedling selection from another weeping form called Mingo, Blu Roo was selected because it has the same great foliage and form, but with a more “full” look.

EUCALYPTUS Rudis - Flooded Gum
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EUCALYPTUS Rudis - Flooded Gum

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Round young leaves become narrow on mature tree.

  • Drought resistant once established.

  • Sun.

  • Popular Australian shade tree.

  • Koala browse

EUCALYPTUS Gilli - Curly Mallee
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EUCALYPTUS Gilli - Curly Mallee

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Heat/freeze tolerant.

  • Quick growing specimen producing yellow flowers thru winter.

  • Humming bird attracting.

  • Useful in small gardens.

  • Grey foliage used by florist.

EUCALYTPUS Sideroxylon Rosea - Red Flowered Mallee
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EUCALYTPUS Sideroxylon Rosea - Red Flowered Mallee

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Black bark, deeply furrowed - never sheds.

  • Showy pale pink to near crimson flowers.

  • Long flowering period form spring to autumn.

  • Proven cold hardy.

  • Koala browse.

EUCALYPTUS Torquata - Coral Gum
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EUCALYPTUS Torquata - Coral Gum

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Abundant, long flowering small to medium tree, 15-30'. Spectacular clusters of pink flowers are long flowering through spring and summer.

EUCALYPTUS Victrix - Coolibah
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EUCALYPTUS Victrix - Coolibah

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Small to medium tree, 25’-35’. Attractive white trunk; weeping foliage. Small clusters of white flowers summer-fall.
Quick growing, tough desert plant. Withstands high winds, low water use, salt tolerant. Similar to Eucalyptus microtheca except for the trunk colour.

EUCALYPTUS Woodwardii - Lemon Flowered Gum
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EUCALYPTUS Woodwardii - Lemon Flowered Gum

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Attractive drought tolerant tree. 30' excellent residential flowering specimen producing frosted white flower buds and large clusters of cascading brilliant yellow flowers. Desert Botanical Garden has been developing this hardy specimen tree since early 1980's. Weeping grey foliage.

EUCALYPTUS Erythrocory - Red Cap Gum
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EUCALYPTUS Erythrocory - Red Cap Gum

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Quick growing with compact habit, growing to 25' high and 12' wide. Lush shiny, long green leaves, full, dense foliage. Attractive bright red caps pop open to bright yellow flower clusters in mid-summer.

EUCALYPTUS Calycogona - Gooseberry Mallee
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EUCALYPTUS Calycogona - Gooseberry Mallee

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Beautiful, small tree of 10-20 feet. Graceful pale green foliage. Silvery-brown bark; small, dainty white flowers in the fall.

DODENEA Viscosa SPP. Purpurea - Purple Hopseed
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DODENEA Viscosa SPP. Purpurea - Purple Hopseed

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Fast growing evergreen shrub, 4'-8'. Purple leaf form. Full sun to partial shade. Attractive screen, clipped hedge. Good block wall camouflage, around pools, and under eucalyptus canopy. 

ACACIA Stenophylla - Shoestring Acacia
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ACACIA Stenophylla - Shoestring Acacia

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Attractive, hardy, weeping tree 30' tall and 15' wide. Lemon blossoms in spring. Excellent median specimen. Ornamental foliage makes this specimen worthwhile for use in large gardens and parks
as shade and shelter trees. Drought and cold resistant.

EUCALYPTUS - Moon Lagoon
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EUCALYPTUS - Moon Lagoon

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Very attractive small to medium shrub 4-12  feet tall. Dainty grey-blue leaves circle the stems. Reddish-orange seed caps burst into masses of snow white flowers in late spring.

CALLISTEMON Phoenicius - Fiery Lesser Bottlebrush
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CALLISTEMON Phoenicius - Fiery Lesser Bottlebrush

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Hardy xeriscape tall shrub or small tree 8'x12'. Forms a tight screen clipped hedge. Research proven. Drought and salt resistant, proven hardiness 16-122 F. Masses of deep red flowers in summer.

EUCALYPTUS Citriodora - Lemon Scent Gum
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EUCALYPTUS Citriodora - Lemon Scent Gum

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Attractively slender, evergreen tree to 30'+ in sun belt zones. High open branching habit, skin-like white trunk, appearing ghost-like at night.

EUCALYPTUS Silverton - Silverton Province
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EUCALYPTUS Silverton - Silverton Province

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Hardy, fast-growing evergreen tree, growing  35'-100' tall with pendulous branches. Attractive white trunk. Good windbreak or screen on property lines. Tolerates desert heat. Establishes quickly.

EUCALYPTUS Campaspe - Silver Topped Gimlet
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EUCALYPTUS Campaspe - Silver Topped Gimlet

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Attractive, medium height feature tree 30" tall and 15' wide.

Greyish-white leaves, skin-like trunk.

Yellow flowers in summer.

Proven drought and cold hardy.

Quick shade.

EUCALYPTUS Leucoxylon Rosea - White Iron Bark
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EUCALYPTUS Leucoxylon Rosea - White Iron Bark

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Medium sized woodland tree from Northern Victoria.

Long, grey-green pendulous branches.

Spear shaped leaves.

Quick to establish producing abundant pink flower clusters.

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