Our dry creek bed garden shows you how to combine a range of different height native plants along a simulated gravel creek. This selection of plants flower throughout the year with peak flowering being spring and summer.
Along the immediate edge are grass-like plants and ground covers: Pynosorus globosus (Billy Buttons), Lomandra 'Little Con', Lomandra 'Seascape', Thysanotis multiflorus (Fringe Lily), Scleranthus biflorus (bright green cushion like ground cover), Dampiera diversifolia (cobalt blue flowered ground cover), and Melaleuca thymifolia
Back from the edge is : Acacia 'Limelight' (0.5m), Grevillea 'Fireworks' (a new cross between G. alpina and G. rosmarinifolia that has bright red and yellow flowers and grows 1m). Eremophila calorhabdos (Spiked Emu Bush with pink flowers).
In dappled shade and slightly heavy moist soil: Acacia leprosa 'Scarlet Blaze', Bauera (Dog Rose), Eriostemon 'Stardust' (syn phylotheca), Prostanthera incisor (cut leaf mint bush), Correa decumbens, Edna Walling Rose Myrtle (Archirhodomyrtus beckleri), Syzygium 'Cascade' (pink flowering Lilly Pilly).
Taller shrubs at back for screening: Agonis 'Jedder's Dream' (smaller sport of 'After Dark' 2.5m), Agonis 'Florist's Star' (3m) and Dodonea viscosa 'Purpurea' (purple hop bush 3.5m)
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