Plant descriptions drawn from plant labels, WWW (Wikipedia, Florabase, Atlas of Living Australia, Australian Native Plants Society, PlantNET NSW, Australian National Botanic Garden, VicFlora, Flora of South Australia, Native Plants Queensland, tasmaniaflora.com, World Wide Wattle, etc.)
Eremophilas can be marvellous plants in the garden, but their reliability in a variety of soils and climates is still being established by their many devoted growers.
We planted our one hectare garden in 2003 in the middle of the Milennium Drought. This meant that many plants that we wanted were not available and that some plants did not survive the lack of overhead protection, the heat and the very dry conditions.
Growing plants in pots can fill hard spaces and also allows plants that don’t like your soil to grow.
We love banksias, not only for their distinguished foliage, colourful cones and variety of form, but particularly because they bloom in winter.