Bili Nursery will be open Tuesday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm over summer, ie. no Saturday or Monday trade until March. For home gardeners, we have a great selection of indigenous plants for sale so do pop in!
Category: Bili Nursery plants
Wildflower combos on sale
Ready to go! Our Bili Nursery staff have been growing up these combos – 4 wildflowers in each pot – and they are looking just gorgeous – perfect presents for any occasion. We chose these species because they flower for long periods and at dif...
Lobelia pratioides – Poison Lobelia
To 30CM. Loosely matting, suckering dioecious perennial herb. Leaves dull green, toothed oblanceolate to lanceolate. Terminal sprays of blue to mauve flowers Oct to May. Requires wet soils. An attractive plant for a shady garden. Poisonous to stock.
Myriophyllum simulans – Amphibious Water-milfoil
To 40CM. Aquatic or semi-aquatic perennial herb with erect, weak reddish stems, rooting at nodes. Irregular or whorls0f fleshy, narrow to terete leaves. Single reddish male flowers, female reddish fading to white Sept to Mar. Variable species in both habitat a...
Liparophyllum exaltatum – Erect Marsh-flower
To 1.2M. Tufted erect emergent perennial herb. Thick dark green broadly ovate to lanceolate leaves. Yellow 5-petalled flowers Sept to Mar. An excellent water plant for dams and ponds.
Rytidospermum caespitosum – Common wallaby Grass
To 90CM. Tufted perennial grass. Leaves variable, usually hairy, flat or rolled often blue-green on upper surface.Panicles variable, usually dense with purplish flowered spikelets Sept to Dec.
Carex tereticaulis – Common Sedge, Hollow Sedge, Poong’ort
To 1.2M. Densely tufted clump. Long, narrow grey-green leaves.Narrow dense spike-like panicle with orange-brown with whitish margins Sept to Dec.
Tetragonia implexicoma – Bower Spinach
To 1M. Prostrate, sometimes mound forming, trailing low shrub. Clusters of thick, semi-succulent bright green diamond shaped leaves.Single, strongly scented yellow flowers on slender stalks Aug to Nov. Succulent reddish berry.
Mimulus repens – Creeping Monkey-flower
20CM. Spreading suckering perennial herb, stems erect when submerged. Pairs of succulent sessile ovate leaves. Flowers blue to mauve Sept to Apr.
Acacia provincialis – Wirildra – Swamp Wattle
To 8M. Bushy open shrub or tree. Long, narrow, tapering bluish-green phyllodes.Lemon-yellow, perfumed, dense ball-shaped flower heads arranged in long racemes, intermittent flowering all year peak Sept to Jan. Pods linear, dark brown to black