Screening Plants
Need a bit of privacy? These fast-growing, leafy legends are perfect for screening out neighbours, fences, or just making your space feel more lush and enclosed.
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Melaleuca lanceolata, commonly known as Rottnest Teatree, is a hardy, long-lives large shrub or small tree valued for its adaptability and attractive features. It typically grows from 3-10 metres, with dense, dark green foliage and papery bark. In summer, it produces masses of creamy white, bottlebrush-like flowers that attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Highly tolerant of coastal winds, salt spray, drought, and poor soils, Melaleuca lanceolata is ideal for windbreaks, screening and habitat planting, providing excellent shelter with a dense canopy for native wildlife.
Enhance your landscape with the Acacia sessilispica, a dense, rounded shrub native to Western Australia. Growing to 3 metres, its pungent green phyllodes and golden flowers create a vibrant display from August to September. This hardy plant thrives in granitic loam and sandy soils, making it a resilient addition to your garden.
The Acacia sessilispica's inflorescences are a visual delight, with sessile spikes densely covered in pale to dark golden flowers. Blooming in late winter to early spring, these yellow blossoms add a burst of colour to any outdoor space.
Ideal for shrubland and mallee communities, Acacia sessilispica is perfect for adding structure and visual interest to gardens. Its angular, glabrous branchlets and glossy black seeds offer a unique aesthetic, while its robust nature ensures it withstands various environmental conditions, making it a versatile choice for any garden design.
Discover the splendid Crimson Kunzea (Kunzea baxteri), a natural spectacle. Ideal for stand alone displays or screening, it's your tool for transforming any space into an enchanting landscape.
Kunzea baxteri flourishes in well-drained soils, full or partly shady position, perfect for Perth environments. Beyond its visual appeal, it promotes environmental well-being, fitting effortlessly into your garden.
Grows to 3m erect shrub, grey-green foliage and crimson profuse flowers clustered in 'bottlebrush' arrangement.
Eucalyptus horistes, brings the essence of the Australian outback into your space. Its lance-shaped, glossy leaves are prized for their essential eucalyptus oils.
It grows as a mallee, erect and open, rising to a modest height of 4 to 10 metres, making it ideal to include in screening on your property. It adapts to various soil types, from sandy to loamy.
Flowering in late summer to autumn, its white to creamy blossoms play a crucial role in pollination and ecosystem enrichment, contributing to habitat restoration and erosion control.
Callistemon phoeniceus, also known as the lesser bottlebrush, is a vibrant and adaptable medium shrub growing up to 4 metres. Its best known for its brilliant red bottlebrush flower spikes that bloom in spring and early summer, attracting nectar-feeding birds and pollinators.
The foliage is narrow and aromatic with new growth tinged red. Great for screening, habitat and adding diversity to your garden. Hardy, showy and low-maintenance!
Mallee Honey Myrtle, Melaleuca acuminata, is a versatile shrub (2-5 metres) or small tree which thrives in our local environment, displaying dense green foliage, papery bark and bottlebrush-like flowers in creamy white or soft pink. Its adaptability to dry, sandy soils, drought and frost tolerant.
Its spring or early summer flowers attract bees and other pollinators, creating a lively nature hub. Moreover, it supports various birds and insects by providing shelter and habitat.
Great for screening, native gardens, low-maintenance and habitat corridors.
Acacia microbotrya, also known as Manna wattle, is a fast growing ever green large shrub or small tree (up to 7m), graceful weeping foliage, honey-scented yellow flowers in winter to spring. Perfect for screening, wind break, erosion control and adding a native plant with heaps of benefits.
It has a deep-rooting system helping to stabilise soil, also as a nitrogen-fixing species it enriches the soil by converting nitrogen into a usable form, improving fertility for surrounding plants.
It also provides vital habitat and food sources for native birds, insects and other wildlife, promoting biodiversity.
Melaleuca brevifolia, commonly known as short-leaf honey myrtle, is a tough and attractive shrub (up to 4m) perfect for low maintenance gardens. It features small aromatic leaves and produces masses of creamy-white bottlebrush flowers in spring, attracting bees and other pollinators.
Melaleuca brevifolia is ideal for all Perth gardens, its dense growth makes it great for windbreaks, hedging, or habitat planting, offering beauty and resilience all in one.
Melaleuca stereophloia is an attractive large shrub growing up to 4 metres. With fine leaves and lovely yellow cream bottle brush like flowers, it provides habitat and nectar for honey eaters and thornbills who love the flowers in late winter and spring.
Being a large multi-branched shrub its perfect to include in a habitat corridor, benefiting birds and insects while providing screening and privacy.
Calothamnus rupestris, commonly known as mouse ears, grows in the Perth area and is adapted for our conditions. It has claw-like red flower clusters which bloom from spring to summer.
It's unique form and vivid flowers make it perfect for our native gardens, while providing protective habitat and supporting local biodiversity by attracting birds and insects.
Mouse ears is a spreading shrub growing up to 4m, loves rocky outcrops and hillsides.
Eucalyptus kochii, also known as oil mallee, an eucalyptus that encapsulates the wild essence of the WA wheatbelt. A small multi-stemmed mallee growing from 3 to 8 metres. This species is renowned for its exceptional high-quality eucalyptus oil and cream-coloured flowers during summer, attracting pollinators.
Eucalyptus kochii is a symbol of environmental care, essential for land rehabilitation and reforestation. It thrives in diverse soil types, from sandy to loamy, and is drought resistance. It acts as an effective windbreak and helps in controlling soil erosion.
Calothamnus quadrifidus, commonly known as one-sided bottlebrush, has distinctive red clustered flowers on one side of it's stems, narrow prickly leaves and grows up to 3m. It is popular in native gardens for its ability to attract birds and pollinators and providing protective habitat for Quenda's and birds. It is also drought tolerant, has a long flowering season and long living.
It's perfect for screening, wind breaks and creating a habitat corridor by adding diversity.
Eucalyptus erythrocorys, commonly known as red-capped gum, or illyarrie, is a striking small tree, growing from 4-8 metres, known for it's red caps and bright yellow flowers seen from late summer through to autumn.
Eucalyptus erythrocorys is popular in Perth gardens and hills properties because of it's ornamental features and ability to attract birds and other pollinators. It loves well-drained soils and sunny positions.
Eucalyptus erthroneama, commonly known as red-flowered mallee, is a small multi-branched tree growing from 2-6m, perfect in all Perth gardens.
Everything about this mallee is attractive, it has smooth, dark pink to red bark that is shed to reveal whitish trunk, and has lance-shaped adult leaves, pendulous flower buds and lots of red flowers and conical fruit.
Allocasuarina huegeliana commonly known as rock she-oak is a graceful and hardy WA native, reaching heights of 4-10 metres. It features fine, dark green needle-like branchlets and a narrow, upright form making it well-suited for screening, wind breaks, habitat corridors, shelterbelts and planting into a dry landscape.
This species is drought tolerant, once established, and thrives in sandy or gravelly soils, including rocky outcrops. Its dense canopy provides valuable habitat and nesting sites for birds, while its deep roots help stabilise soil and prevent erosion.
She-oaks make a wonderful wispy sound when the wind blows through their foliage.
Melaleuca cuticularis, also known as the saltwater paperbark, is a hardy and attractive small tree (7 metres) ideal for wet or saline environments, but also thrives in sandy clay, loamy clay and clay soils. It grows along our coast line from Perth around to Esperance.
With its distinctive white papery bark, lush green foliage and creamy white bottlebrush flowers, it adds beauty and function to landscapes.
Saltwater Paperbark is perfect for eco-friendly gardening, requiring little water and minimal care. Adaptable to both sunny and shaded areas, it helps maintain ecological balance by fostering local ecosystems. This versatile shrub offers both aesthetic appeal and functional benefits, making it a superb choice for sustainable landscapes.
The Sandhill Honey Myrtle, or Melaleuca adnata, is an embodiment of resilience and natural beauty, integral to the Australian environment. Flowers bloom in stunning shades from creamy-white to yellowish, drawing in bees and birds, creating a vibrant ecosystem. This plant is a master of adaptation, thriving in various landscapes, serving as a natural barrier against wind and erosion with its diverse growth from a lush shrub to a small tree.
This species is crucial for soil stability and wildlife sanctuary, enhancing your space's ecological value.
Melaleuca nesophila commonly known as Showy honey-myrtle because of it's long flowering time with beautifully pink to purple pom-pom flowers. Attractive ever-green aromatic foliage growing up to 4 metres.
A native that ticks all the boxes in terms of providing resources for birds and insects, while adding beauty into your garden. The showy honey-myrtle is also used for screening.
Allocasurina campestris is a dense, erect shrub that grows to 1-3 metres. It has similar foliage to other she-oaks but with a more upright character, which makes it an interesting feature in your garden. It grows in gravelly sandy soils so is perfect in a difficult area.
Works well for screening, wind breaks and part of a habitat corridor, providing shelter and resources for native birds and other animals.
Eucalyptus wandoo is a long-lived and iconic WA tree renowned for its smooth, pale grey to white bark and strong, durable hardwood. Reaching heights of 3 to 25 metres, it typically grows in the SW wheatbelt and woodland regions, where it plays a crucial ecological role by providing habitat and food for birds such as the black cockatoos.
It has glossy green leaves and creamy white flowers, which appear in summer, providing a life line to bees through our hot summers.