This garden was established with the help of volunteers including local home-school students in July 2015.
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Coastal Plants
The South East’s coastal ecosystem is dynamic and diverse. The coastal dunes are inhabited by groundcovers, sedges and grasses, and low shrubs.
A groundcover which produces abundant pink pea-shaped flowers.
A delicate groundcover, popular with insects, with small white fan-shaped flowers.
Grows prostrate (along the ground), and has hairy leaves and blue fan-shaped flowers. Vulnerable in South Australia.
A shrub which is the only food source for larvae of the Saltbush Blue butterfly.
A common coastal plant, the flowers appear to come from the ends of the sword-like leaves.
Grows erect in the foredune and has thick fleshy leaves
Low shrub with silver-grey foliage, and yellow honey-scented flowers in spring.
Low growing shrub with deep green foliage and small white daisy flowers. Grows on coastal cliffs. Vulnerable in Australia, and Endangered in South Australia.
Prostrate shrub with holly-shaped leaves, and bright pink flowers in spring Rare in South Australia.
A common and widespread shrub in many ecosystems. Produces dusky pink bell-shaped flowers.
Low-growing shrub with narrow and short leaves. Flowers give off strong scent of honey.
Medium shrub growing to about two metres, with large white daisy flowers.
Shrub with shiny oval shaped leaves with white hairy undersides.
An erect shrub with many small white flowers.
Dense shrub with sticky leaves, and white flowers with pinkish centres. Endangered in South Australia.
Wetland Plants
Has grass-like leaves and produces a single flower-stem with multiple flowers.
Medium sized shrub with white bottlebrush flowers which grows around the edges of wetlands. Rare in South Australia.
Has strappy grass-like leaves. Each flower-stem holds one purple flower.
Large tussock-grass type sedge with long slender bright green leaves. The leaves are very sharp on their edges. Tall flower spike up above the foliage with an abundance of brown to black seeds.
Grassy Woodland Plants
Small plant with showy erect flowerstems to 60 cm tall with fluffy white flowers.
Grows to about two metres and has small yellow and red pea-shaped flowers.
Medium shrub growing to about two metres, with large white daisy flowers.
Large, prickly shrub. Important for birds and butterflies.
Medium shrub. Grows around Keith in the Upper South East. Endangered in Australia and South Australia.
Trailing plant with round pink flowers.
Have grass-like leaves and a tall flower stem with multiple purple flowers. Flowers are chocolate-scented, giving the plant its common name.
Common grey leaves perennial with golden flowers.
Small creeping tussock, dark blue flowers with black anthers.
Large shrub up to 4 metres tall. Wrinkled leaves are dark green above, and white and fuzzy on the underside. The flowers are white to pink. Vulnerable in Australia, and South Australia.
Low-growing shrub. Vulnerable in Australia, and South Australia.
Tall plant with large dark green leaves and pink, white, or pale purple flowers. Roots were an Indigenous food source.
Spreading shrub with oval-shaped leaves and small white flowers.
Vulnerable in Australia, and South Australia.