Three plants, one box, Express Post. A good start for any native garden.
Choose any three native Australian plants from what's growing in the nursery right now. I'll pick and pack them to order each one in a 50mm forest tube, healthy root system, ready to go into the ground. They ship together, so the postage makes sense.
How it works
At checkout, tell me your three plants using the field below. I'll pack them and have them on their way within 1–3 business days.
If you're unsure what will work in your garden, include a note about your conditions aspect, soil type, coastal or inland and I'll make sure what goes in the box suits where you are.
What's available now
Stock rotates with the season. This is what's growing and ready right now:
Kunzea ambigua: Tick Bush. Hardy, spring-flowering, masses of small white blooms. Reliable food source for native bees and birds. Full sun to part shade, well-drained soil.
Prostanthera incisa: Cut-leaf Mint Bush. Brush a leaf and the whole morning shifts. Purple-lilac flowers in spring, aromatic year-round. Part shade to full sun.
Correa reflexa: Common Correa. Flowers through autumn and winter when almost nothing else does. The honeyeaters know it before I do. Part shade, adaptable.
Melastoma affine: Native Lasiandra. Large vivid purple-pink flowers and edible fruit with a long history on this continent. Moist, well-drained soil, some shelter.
Hakea laurina:Pincushion Hakea. Deep crimson globe flowers in autumn and winter, extraordinary to look at. Drought-tolerant, full sun, bird-attracting.
Mentha australis: River Mint. A native mint with a clean, fresh scent that's distinctly Australian — softer than common garden mint, with a slightly sweet edge. Small white to lilac flowers in spring and summer that bees find immediately. Does best with reliable moisture and part shade. Edible and medicinal, with a long history of use by First Nations peoples.
Einadia hastata: Saltbush. A sprawling native groundcover with small, diamond-shaped leaves that shimmer silver-green in the light. Produces tiny red to orange berries through summer and autumn — edible, with a mild salty flavour, and a favourite of birds and small fauna. Exceptionally drought tolerant, handles full sun, poor soils and coastal conditions.
Ficinia nodosa: Knobby Club-rush. A native sedge that grows in a clump. A native sedge that grows in a clump. Fine, bright green, rush-like, cylindrical form 15 to 100cm long by 1- 2 mm diameter, tufting, stiff and erect but often arching. Leaves sometimes reduced to orange-brown sheaths.Flowering Time: Mid-spring to early summer.
Hibiscus sabdariffa (naturalised in Australia): Rosella. An edible plant grown for preserves, jams and cordials. Height: 1 - 2m, Position: Full sun, Soil preference: Well-drained. A fast-growing shrub with attractive upright red stems. Commonly known as roselle or rosella, features delicate pale-yellow to pink flowers with a distinct dark red or maroon centre.
The list is updated as plants come and go new species are added as propagation rounds come through.
Growing notes
All plants are grown at Talulahhub nursery in coastal Sydney and are suited to coastal and eastern NSW conditions humid summers, sandy or clay-heavy soils, full sun to part shade depending on species. Most are low-maintenance once established and require no fertiliser if the soil is right.
Shipping
Live plants are sent from NSW every Monday and Tuesday by Express Post. Live plants are not sent to the Northern Territory, Tasmania or Western Australia. Plants in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) cannot be sent interstate and go within NSW only.
At the moment this plant is delivered to NSW addresses only.
