Groundcover

Australian bluebell (Wahlenbergia sp.)

Tiny bell-shaped blue flowers from winter to spring.

Size: 20cm (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Bird's nest fern (Asplenium australasicum)

Large rainforest epiphytic fern.

Size: 2m (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Shade

Cousin it (Casuarina glauca prostrate)

Tough groundcover with grey-green long, thin leaves.

Size: 10-20cm (h), 1-1.5m (w)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Coastal poa (Poa poiformis)

Tussock grass with weeping needle-like green foliage.

Size: 1m (h), 50cm (w)

Soil type: Loam, sand

Sun/shade: Sunny

Creeping boobialla (Myoporum parvifolium)

Spreading groundcover with small white flowers in spring to summer.

Size: 30cm (h), 1-3m (w)

Soil type: Loam, sand

Cushion bush (Scleranthus biflorus)

Bright green moss-like plant with a compact habit. Small yellow-green flowers in summer.

Size: 10cm (h), 40-80cm (w)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Cut-leaf daisy (Brachyscome multifida)

Masses of pale purple daisy flowers year-round.

Size: 45cm (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Dune fan flower (Scaevola calendulacea)

Sprawling groundcover with mauve fan shaped flowers.

Size: 40cm (h)

Soil type: Sand

Sun/shade: Sunny

Flannel flower (Actinotus helianthi)

Soft woolly foliage with white flowers in spring.

Size: 50-100cm (h)

Soil type: Sand

Flax lily (Dianella sp.)

Hardy clumping plant. Green, strap-like leaves. Purple flowers in spring to summer, blue-purple fruits.

Size: 50cm-100cm (h), 50-200cm (w)

Soil type: Loam, sand

Sun/shade: Sunny

Grass flag (Libertia paniculata)

Glossy strap-like leaves with starry white flowers in spring to summer.

Size: 50cm (h), 30cm (w)

Soil type: Loam, clay

Sun/shade: Part shade

Gristle fern (Blechnum cartilagineum)

Robust fern. Young fronds commonly tinged dusty pink, turning to green with age.

Size: 40-150cm (h)

Soil type: Loam

Sun/shade: Part shade

Kangaroo grass (Themeda australis)

Tussock grass with attractive seed heads in spring to summer.

Size: 20-50cm (h), 40-60cm (w)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Knobby club-rush (Ficinia nodosa)

Hardy coastal plant with fine, bright green foliage, round seed heads.

Size: 1m (h), 80cm (w)

Soil type: All soil types, tolerates wet areas

Sun/shade: Sunny to shade

Native flag (Patersonia sp.)

Small strap-leaf plant with purple flowers in late winter to spring.

Size: 80cm (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Maidenhair fern (Adiantum aethiopicum)

Delicate low-growing fern. Prefers moist, sheltered sites.

Size: 50cm (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Shade

Matt rush (Lomandra longifolia)

Hardy tufted plant, strap-like leaves, scented flowers on a spike-like structure in spring.

Size: 1m (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Native storksbill (Pelargonium australe)

Small herbaceous plant with soft, hairy leaves and white/pink flowers in spring to autumn.

Size: 30-60cm (h), 30-100cm (w)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Native violet (Viola hederacea)

Groundcover with round green leaves. Purple and white flowers year-round.

Size: 10cm (h), 30-100cm (w)

Soil type: Loam, clay

Sun/shade: Shade

Paper daisy (Xerochrysum bracteatum)

Yellow, red, purple, or orange flowers in spring.

Size: 1m (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Pigface (Carpobrotus glaucescens)

Coastal prostrate succulent. Pink-purple flowers from spring to summer.

Size: 1cm (h), 2m (w)

Soil type: Sand

Sun/shade: Sunny

Prickly rasp fern (Blechnum neo-hollandicum)

New growth frond bright pink turning to green with age.

Size: 30cm (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Shade

Prostrate guinea flower (Hibbertia diffusa)

Small shrub with yellow flowers in spring to summer.

Size: 30cm (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Sunny

Purple fan flower (Scaevola aemula)

Sprawling groundcover with blue fan-shaped flowers year-round.

Size: 50cm (h)

Soil type: Loam, sand

Sun/shade: Sunny

Swamp lily (Crinum pedunculatum)

Upright, large clusters of white flowers in spring to summer.

Size: 2m (h)

Soil type: Clay, tolerates wet areas

Tussock grass (Poa sp.)

Fine-leaved tussock grass. Flowers in spring to summer.

Size: 50-100cm (h), 50cm (w)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Food source: Butterflies and birds

Vanilla lily (Arthropodium milleflorum)

White-lilac petals in spring to summer.

Size: 1m (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragonioides)

Sprawling groundcover with soft stems and foliage. Small greenish, yellow flowers year-round.

Size: 20cm (h), 2m (w)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Sun/shade: Part shade

Winged everlasting (Ammobium alatum)

Silvery foliage with papery white flowers and yellow centres in summer.

Size: 1m (h)

Soil type: All soil types (well drained)

Yellow buttons (Chrysocephalum apiculatum)

Clumping groundcover with silvery grey foliage and year-round yellow button flowers.

Size: 20-30cm (h), 40-50cm (w)

Soil type: Loam, sand

Sun/shade: Sunny