WA native plant sites

Seed - owned by Greening Australia, not for profit.
http://www.nindethana.net.au/product-detail.aspx?p=2367

Water corporation list of waterwise plants
http://www.watercorporation.com.au/w/waterwise_plants_az.cfm?id=R

Australian National Botanical Garden
http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2008/rhodanthe-chlorocephala.html

Flora base - WA Natives from the Dept of Env and Conservation
http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/search/quick?q=pultenaea+villosa

Native planting 1 - bush shrub selection

This selection came from "Australian plants for Mediterranean climates" (635.951 ELL, copy in Spearwood library). The mix was recommended in the book as a spring flower arrangement. A possible arrangement is at the bottom of the page. The pictures come from the web.

Pimela ferruginia

Pimela ferruginia

Pimela ferruginia
Native to costal WA. Floral. Grown from cuttings. Good varieties: Bonne Petite, Magenta Mist. A bush, quite large.

Alogyne heugelli

Alogyne Huegelli
SW WA coast; grows from cuttings. Good cultivar is West Coast Gem.

Anthocercis viscosa subsp. caudata Sticky Tailflower

Anthocercis viscosa
WA coastal, grown from seeds and cuttings. Grows to 2-3 m tall.

anigozanthus flavidus orange kangaroo paw

anigozanthus flavidus green kangaroo paw

Anigozanthus flavidus (kangaroo paw)
Plants, nice flowers, many varieties. Native to WA

chrysocephalum apiculatum

Chrysocephalum apiculatum
Native of SW WA, groundcover.

Dampiera linearis

Dampiera linearis
SW WA, ground cover.






A possible arrangement

E. ficifolia in Coogee Coastal reserve

E. Ficifolia in Coogee Coastal reserve

E. ficifolia flowers

Housesitting in Coogee, taking the dog for a walk in the coastal reserve, it's just down the hill. There's some really nice native tress there. Particularly stunning at the time of year is, what I think is, Eucalyptus ficifolia. The picture in "Australian Plants for Mediterranean Climatic Gardens" (Rodger Elliot) looks the same, except the centre of the flowers are black in his picture. Elliot recommends planting E. ficifolia with shade loving ground covers. For example, "Goodenia ovata, most of the Correa reflexa selections and Phebalium squamulosom subspc. argenteum." Could make a nice arrangement for a garden? Although on further investigation it turns out all three of his recommendations are from the eastern states (of Australia)...dry climates though. I suppose it depends how regional one wants things to be. Anyway, his recommendations look something like this (the first picture is of the full E. ficifolia tree that I took this morning, the others off the web, the pictures are in order of mention above)...

I've since spoken to a local expert and she confirmed this is E. ficifolia and would be good for relatively small gardens.