Alyssum
Ideal for borders, edging, between bricks or stones and for rockeries and for mass planting for 'carpeting' effects. Alyssum is a dwarf bush about 10 cm - 20 cm in height with masses of tiny white flowers. It blooms all year and in most ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Fragrant Foliage
Glossy green leaves and perfectly shaped, pure white flowers with an exquisite perfume, could only be describing a gardenia. Gardenias are some of the most popular flowering shrubs but they never seem to flower as much as we would like them to. ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Xanthorrhoea
Xanthorrhoea are native to Australia and are a remarkable and long lived plant, bearing a dense tuft of stiff grassy leaves on the end of thick branches. Packed on a thick rush-like spike from the centre a metre or more in length, white flowers ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Pyracantha or firethorn (Pyracantha angustifolia)
Spiny evergreen shrubs, of which Pyracantha angustifolia is the most common on the south coast, to 4m high, with narrow-oval, sometimes toothed, leaves. Clusters of white flowers are followed by small (to 1cm) orange-red berries. Dense ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Gordonias
With its large white flowers during autumn and early winter, gordonia is a tree that stands out. Gordonias will grow almost anywhere in Australia except in frost areas in mountainous zones. Gordonia axillaris . The name of Gordonia came from that ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Coprosma - Looking Glass Plant
Attractive evergreen bushy shrub (1-2 meters) native to New Zealand. Leaves are roundish glossy deep green or variegated. Small white flowers are followed by clusters of shiny, fleshy orange coloured berries. Very adaptable and resistant to sea ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Asparagus densiflorus
A scrambling plant with wiry stems, which tends to behave more as a groundcover, or climb a short distance into shrubs and small trees. It has small (5-15mm by about 1mm) narrow leaves arranged in clusters of three, and tiny white flowers ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Chinese wormwood or mugwort (Artemisia verlotiorum)
A tall erect unbranched perennial herb, with deeply lobed, greyish-green leaves spread up the stems. The underside of the leaf is white. Flowers are very small, in elongated branched terminal spikes. Flowering is in late summer. The plant dies ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Turkey rhubarb, climbing dock (Acetosa sagittata)
A large non-woody vine with arrowhead shaped leaves, and small white flowers carried in long branched heads. Seed capsules are red, drying to brown, with a papery texture The plant grows from a conical underground tuber like a sweet ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Bouvardia and Stephanotis - Perfumed Plants
The good news first - both plants have beautiful white flowers with a marvellous perfume. The bad news is that they're tricky to grow in many areas of Australia, and could well drop dead on you. However, Don thinks that they are both definitely ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Ctenanthe lubbersiana
Commonly grown foliage plant, about 40-75 cm high with branching stems that spread laterally. The oblong green leaves are patterned in irregularly shaded bands of pale yellow-green, with pale green undersides. Small, white flowers on one-sided ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Beaumontia
An interesting rare perfumed plant is Herald's Trumpet (Beaumontia grandiflora) which has wonderful large white flowers with a sweet tropical perfume. It is a vigorous woody climber which is native to the region from India to Vietnam and belongs ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
