New compact native grasses at Downes

We have plenty of new varieties of plants coming through now, here are a few of my favourites that are looking awesome at the moment.

Lomandra confertifolia Keira

Lomandra Keira produces a ball shaped mound of needle like leaves, bright green in colour. It is soft to touch and has great visual appeal. Extremely suitable for areas where children play, particularly for border planting. Its spherical shape offers the opportunity for a designer to create graphic patterns in a garden bed.

Lomandra Keira grows to 30cm tall x 40cm wide.

 

 

 

Lomandra confertifolia Tilga

Lomandra Tilga is a very vigorous narrow leafed Lomandra that develops a graceful weeping habit as it matures. Its foliage is very soft to touch making it great for high traffic areas and safe for little eyes

These characteristics make Tilga a dependable selection for large scale plantings either in rows beside roadways or en masse in parks and gardens.

Lomandra Tilga grows to 70cm tall x 40-50cm wide

Lomandra confertifolia rubiginosa Crackerjack

A cracker of a variety!

Lomandra Crackerjack exhibits a strong, but graceful presence in the landscape. Its fine leaves have a fresh maintained appearance year round.

The fine leaves of Crackerjack sway gracefully in the wind, which creates the feeling of a soft wispy element, contrasting perfectly with hard paved surfaces. New seasons growth is blue, maturing to green with age. With flowers positioned deep in the foliage it is well suited to high pedestrian areas and is child friendly, as there is little danger from getting spiked by drying flowers.

Lomandra Crackerjack grows to 45cm tall x 1m wide

Dianella caerulea Stampede

Dianella Stampede is a gorgeous compact form of caerulea growing to 35cm-45cm tall, its extremely drought tolerant making it suitable for a wide range of solutions from garden edges, Balinese gardens to mass planting in roadside gardens.

The foliage is very dense making it a great little border plant. It’s tough as tolerating abuse from pedestrians.

Dianella Stampede has a lovely blue flower spring, we now have good numbers available but get in fast as demand is increasing.

Please feel free to contact one of our sales staff on Ph: 02 4651 0999 for More information.