A Tough Australian Shrub with Color for Days. Grows as a spreading shrub, more upright as it matures. The oldest plants at the UCSC Arboretum are about 6-7' tall and wide, with dense, nicely compact habits. Small, narrow flowers are deep red, seen in late spring to early summer. Likes average drainage at a minimum, excellent drainage and mineral soils are its favorite. This is a tough, durable plant that will withstand considerable drought, and is especially forgiving in that regard when used as a container plant. It also tolerates moderately frequent summer watering well but will survive in much of populated California on almost none after a year or two in the ground. It is relatively cold hardy, showing just light foliage damage here after being tested several times to 25F, including five nights in a row.

A very showy, very low, very tough, very drought tolerant, very frost-hardy, weed-smothering evergreen groundcover that is disease and insect resistant, highly deer, rabbit and gopher resistant when established, and can be planted wide centers with discrete (vs. sprinkled) irrigation (for easier weed control). Planted from one or five gallon containers, this is how you cover a lot of ground at a relatively low price. Sound good? Well that's not all - it draws hummingbirds, pollinators and beneficial too! But wait, there's more! It is pretty enough to be used commercially as a cut flower and for cut foliage filler. The flowers are very showy and well-displayed, but the attractive sawtooth leaves are also quite striking, all year, and especially when emerging all bronzy and silky and sprinkled with flower buds.

Is a hybrid species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a prostrate shrub with deeply lobed leaves and toothbrush-like groups of dark pink to burgundy-red flowers. The plant is a popular garden ground-cover.

Until recently the most popular plant in Australia, now superseded by the Lomandra gang. But it is still the most popular large-scale groundcover, and just check out the images to see why. It is very close to 'Austraflora Fanfare' but its leaves are essentially uncut and thus it appear more lush and verdant. It is also definitely faster, moderately denser, less drought tolerant and less cold hardy, by a couple to a few degrees - degrees F, that is.