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Warrnambool Plant Selector Tool

If you're looking to include more Australian plants in your garden and need some tips on choosing the right plants, you've come to the right place.

This online plant selector tool provided by Warrnambool City Council allows you to make an informed plant choice based on the size of your garden, how much gardening you like to do and how much water a plant needs to thrive.

You can find plants based on specific criteria by choosing options below.

Form
Height
Flowering Time
Maintenance
Light
Water Requirement
Tolerates
Biodiversity Benefits
Plant Origin
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Coast Flax-lily
Coast Flax-lily
Dianella brevicaulis

A clump forming plant with strappy dark yellow-green leaves that grows to 50cm tall. The flower spikes are much shorter that the foliage with 2-9 mid to dark blue or violet flowers from October to…

Coast Saw-sedge
Coast Saw-sedge
Gahnia trifida

A tussock forming perennial with long narrow leaves that have rough rolled in margins and pendulous tips that grows up to 1.5 metres tall. Erect narrow dark brown flowers appear from October to…

Coast Spear-grass
Coast Spear-grass
Austrostipa flavescens

A tufted perennial grass that grows to 1.2 metres tall with green leaf blades and dark brown to black flower heads that are covered with golden hairs.

Coast Sword-sedge
Coast Sword-sedge
Lepidosperma gladiatum

This hardy sedge has clumping strappy green-yellow leaves on rigid stems with brown flowers that rise above the foliage from September to February that grows to one metre tall. This sedge is ideal…

Coast Twin Leaf
Coast Twin Leaf
Zygophyllum billardierei

A scrambling perennial plants with deep green semi-succulent leaves that grows 30-60cm tall and 1 metre wide and forms a dense mat. This plant produces a mass display of four-petalled yellow…

Coastal Rosemary
Coastal Rosemary
Westringia fruiticosa

A fast growing small shrub with dense grey green rosemary like leaves that are velvety white underneath, which produces masses of small white to mauve flowers and grows up to two metres tall. It…

Cockies Tongues
Cockies Tongues
Templetonia retusa

A small to medium attractive hardy shrub that grows one to two metres tall with greyish-green leaves and profuse deep red to orange pea shaped flowers. This shrub prefers well drained soils in…

Common Appleberry
Common Appleberry
Billardiera mutabilis

A slender twining climer, ususally with slightly hairy stems and oblong dark green leaves. This climer has creamy yellow bell shaped flowers that hang from the end of the branchlets from September…

Common Emu-bush
Common Emu-bush
Eremophila glabra various forms

Eremophila glabra has various forms which range from prostrate forms to shrubs up to 1.5 metres tall. The leaves can range from smooth to greyish and hairy. The flowers also vary and can be green…

Correa 'Grannys Grave'
Correa 'Grannys Grave'
Correa reflexa var. reflexa 'Grannys Grave'

A dense rounded shrub growing between 15 -60 cm tall with dark green leaves and lime green bell-shaped flowers from May to October.  This plant was discovered in the Granny's Grave area and is…

Correa 'Marians Marvel'
Correa 'Marians Marvel'
Correa "Marians Marvel"

An hardy open shrub with small oval dark green leaves and small bell-shaped pink flowers with creamy green tips in spring that grows between one and two metres tall. This shrub requires free…

Correa Chef's Cap
Correa Chef's Cap
Correa baeuerlenii

A hardy dense rounded habit correa, with glossy green leaves, red stems and green bell shaped flowers with a distinctive shaped calyx that grows to two metres. This shrub grows best in sheltered…

Creeping Boobialla
Creeping Boobialla
Myoporum parvifolium

A fast growing evergreen groundcover that produces a mass of small star-shaped flowers and spread to approximately 2 metres. This hardy groundcovers forms a thick mat of fine foliage and is an…

Crimson Mallee
Crimson Mallee
Eucalyptus landsdowneana

A small slender tree with smooth grey or creamy white upper bark becoming rough at the base. This tree grows up to six metres tall and produces an abundance of deep crimson to rich pink flowers in…

Curly Sedge
Curly Sedge
Carex tasmanica

A densely tufted sedge with distinctive curly leaf tips. The flowers of this sedge are mauve to purple on tall erect stalks from October to January. It grows in wet heavy soils in seasonally wet…

Cushion Bush
Cushion Bush
Leucophyta brownii

A low rounded cushion-like grey-white shrub. Flowers packed in white to yellow globular heads approximately 1cm across. A very hardy shrub for frontline coastal exposure.

Cut-leaf Banksia
Cut-leaf Banksia
Banksia praemorsa

A dense shrub with wedge-shaped leaves that have serrated edges and burgundy cylindrical flowers up to 35cm long in winter and spring, that gows to four metres tall. This plant is ideal for garden…

Cut-leaf Banksia yellow form
Cut-leaf Banksia yellow form
Banksia praemorsa "High Noon"

A dense shrub with wedge-shaped leaves that have serrated edges and yellow cylindrical flowers up to 35cm long in winter and spring, that gows to four metres tall. This plant is ideal for garden…

Drooping She-oak
Drooping She-oak
Allocasuarina verticillata

Small tree with a dense rounded crown and drooping full grey-green branchlets with yellow to brown flower spikes. This tree attracts seed eating birds such as parrots and cockatoos.

Dune Fan-flower
Dune Fan-flower
Scaevola calendulacea

A prostrate plant that can grow to 40cm tall with shiny succulent spoon shaped leaves and blue fan shaped flowers with a yellow base. It requires full sun and sandy soil and is useful as a…