0.3-1M x 1-3M. Aromatic perennial herb, erect stems produced from creeping rhizomes. Foliage is variable. Dense clusters of flowerheads Oct-May. Requires moist to dry soils.Full sun, semi-shade. Old growth should be hard-pruned.
Category: Bili Nursery plants
Chloris truncata – Windmill Grass
1.5-45CM high. Open or compacted tufted grass, blueish green. Requires well-drained conditions, heavy soils, full sun. Attractive grass for sunny rockeries.
Centella cordifolia – Swamp Pennywort
Prostrate x 1-2M. Fast-growing creeping perennial herb, leaves grow from notes along rhizomes. Requires moist to wet soils. Full sun, semi-shade. Grows well around pools and boggy areas.
Cassinia arcuata – Drooping Cassinia
1-3M x 1-2M. Open, erect, weeping aromatic shrub. Requires well-drained soils. Full sun, semi-shade. Easy to grow, tolerates poor, stony soils.
Carex tereticaulis – Common Sedge
0.4-1.2M x 1M. Densely tufted clumps. Requires moist heavy winter-wet soils. Full sun, semi-shade.
Carex fascicularis – Tassel Sedge
0.5-1M high. Densely tufted sedge, Requires moist spoil, tolerates inundation, semi-shade.
Carex apressa – Tall Sedge
0.5-1.2M x 0.5-1M. Dense yellow-green tussocks. Requires moist soil, tolerates periods of inundation. Full sun, semi-shade. A tough sedge, suitable for stabilising eroded stream banks. Leaves used by First Nations people for basket-making. Attracts butterflies...
Calocephalus lacteus – Milky Beauty-heads
15-50CM. Small, sprawling hairy herb. Flowers white globular to oblong buttons Nov-Feb. Requires moist soils tolerating inundation and some salinity. Full sun, semi-shade.
Bossiaea prostrata – Creeping Bossiaea
Prostrate x 0.5M-1.5M. Spreading or matting ground cover. Pea flowers Oct-Nov. Easy to grow in well-drained soils, semi-shade to full-shade.
Bossiaea cinerea – Showy Bossiaea
1-2M x 1-2M. Ornamental, dense, low, erect and spreading shrub. Profuse yellow and red pea flowers Aug-Sept. Adapts to most well-drained soils. Full sun, semi-shade. Can be pruned hard.