Plants for ... Patio tubs or pots
Acacia Green Mist
Acacia cognata 'Green Mist'
Stunning dwarf form of the River Wattle. Fine soft light green foliage complimented by pale yellow flowers in Spring. Can be grown with effect as a shrub in borders rockeries or as a container specimen with regular feeding. Sun or part shade. Most soil types. Grows to 1m tall, spreads to 2m. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Acacia Limelight
Acacia cognata 'Limelight'
A stand out shrub with a rounded shape and dense, fine, bright green foliage. It’s striking as a contrast among bold foliage plants, even more so when grown as a container plant. The shape and the lushness of the foliage make you want to stop and stroke it, which means it’s a fun plant to place in a pot beside decks or outdoor seating areas. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Acmadenia Starblush
Acmadenia tetragona 'Starblush'
Starblush is a tidy, multi-branched, mounded, and heather-like shrub that's a mass of flower from late in winter. Its tiny (1.5cm) flowers are a bright pink with a hint of purple and a red mid-rib, and smother the bush very early in spring. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Adenandra uniflora
Adenandra uniflora
A small evergreen shrub that's a picture from late-winter through to summer - covered in pretty five-petalled white flowers with a touch of shell pink. It has a low, compact mounded habit, great for up close to the house, paths and patio where it can be admired by all. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Aeonium Schwarzkorf
Aeonium arboreum 'Schwarzkorf'
Here’s a plant with rich, dark chocolate and plum coloured foliage. It’s a reliable beauty, looking dark and sensual all year round, performing magnificently month after month. As a succulent it will tolerate very dry conditions, but in summer it will look more beautiful if watered during dry periods. As a container plant, Aeonium Schwartzkopf is ideal, easy to grow, as well as stunningly good-looking. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Aloe plicatilis
Aloe plicatilis
A unique and striking multi-branched shrub or small tree from South Africa's southwestern Cape where it's known as the fan aloe - a reference to the unique layout of its strap-like leaves. As the bush matures, racemes of tubular scarlet flowers are a spectacular sight in late-winter and spring. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Aloe polyphylla
Aloe polyphylla
This fascinating succulent's been in high demand for many years, but until now only a few connoisseurs have been satisfied. Its spiraling leaf pattern bedazzles all who see it. It can spiral either clockwise or anticlockwise and long-established plants flower in spring or summer, though not always reliably so. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Anigozanthus Bush Eclipse
Anigozanthus fuliginosa 'Bush Eclipse'
Native to Western Australia, Kangaroo paws make excellent garden and patio subjects and wonderful cutflowers for a bold indoor statement. Bush Eclipse flowers later in summer and spot flowers almost year round, certainly to its own timetable. It has a high natural disease tolerance and needs little water - summer droughts eat dust! Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Anigozanthus Royal Cheer
Anigozanthus 'Royal Cheer'
Royal Cheer's something different in Kangaroo Paws. It forms a glaucous-grey-green clump which is tidy and compact. From spring, tall flower stems grow from the base and are topped with striking large red-green flowers. These exquisite flower heads are a wonderful cutflower and look great in the garden too. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Arctotis Hannah
Arctotis 'Hannah'
Stunning moroccan-red flowers are are just one of the outstanding features of this ground cover daisy. Flowering from late winter until late autumn with spot flowering over winter in warmer areas. Rapidly grows forming a mounded clump. Likes full sun and good drainage. Grows 50cm x 75cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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