Verge Garden Guidelines Suggested Plant List

Verge Garden Guidelines

Suggested Plant List

Further advice on plant species can be found in Council’s Green Gardening Guide available on Council’s website.  

Please note: Trees or tall Shrubs must not be planted in verge gardens. Any plants chosen for use in verge gardens must be groundcovers or low growing species. Select species that will not impede verge users or obstruct the visibility of motorists using the road, entering or exiting a residential driveway.

Category	Common name	Species name
Ground covers	Rough Maidenhair Fern	Adiantum hispidulum
Ground covers	Silver Artemisia	Artemisia ludoviciana ‘Alba’
Ground covers	Queen’s Tears	Billbergia nutans
Ground covers	Pineapple Lily	Billbergia pyramidalis
Ground covers	Cut-leafed Daisy	Brachyscome multifida
Ground covers	Forest daisies	Brachyscome spp. (Angustifolia)
Ground covers	Cats’ Tail Lily	Bulbine frutescens
Ground covers	Pigface	Carpobrotus glaucescens
Ground covers	Grape Ivy	Cissus alata ‘Ellen Danica’
Ground covers	Barbed-wire Grass	Cymbopogon refractus
Ground covers	Rabbits Foot Fern	Davallia feejeensis
Ground covers	Atherton Flax Lily	Dianella atraxis
Ground covers	Blue Flax Lily	Dianella caerulea
Ground covers	Prickly Rasp Fern	Doodia aspera
Ground covers	Mexican Daisy	Erigeron karvinskianus
Ground covers	Amazon Lily	Eucharis amazonica
Ground covers	Diamond Forest	Euphorbia hypericifolia
Ground covers	Gerbera Daisy	Gerbera jamesonii
Ground covers	Star Goodenia	Goodenia rotundifolia
Ground covers	Bronze Rambler	Grevillea 'Bronze Rambler'
Ground covers	Gin Gin Gem	Grevillea 'Gin Gin Gem'
Ground covers	Royal Mantle	Grevillea ‘Poorinda Royal Mantle’
Ground covers	Day Lily	Hemerocallis cultivars
Ground covers	Hippeastrum	Hippeastrum cvs
Ground covers	Orange Hippeastrum	Hippeastrum puniceum
Ground covers	Shore Juniper	Juniperus conferta
Ground covers	Bedding Kalanchoe	Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
Ground covers	Leopard Lily	Ledebouria (Drimiopsis) petiolata
Ground covers	Evergreen Giant	Liriope muscari ‘Evergreen Giant’
Ground covers	Dwarf Mat Rush	Lomandra confertifolia
Ground covers	Ulla Dulla Beacon	Melaleuca 'Ulla Dulla Beacon'
Ground covers	Kandgaroo Fern	Microsorum diversifolium
Ground covers	Groundcover Myoporum	Myoporum parvifolium
Ground covers	Giant Mondo Grass	Ophiopogon jaburan
Ground covers	Bower Vine	Pandorea jasminoides
Ground covers	Bear’s Foot Fern	Phlebodium aureum
Ground covers	Dogbane	Plectranthus neochilus

Ground covers	Large Tussock Grass	Poa labillardieri (local progeny)
Ground covers	Portea Bromeliad	Portea petropolitana var extensa
Ground covers	Brisbane Lily	Proiphys cunninghamiana
Ground covers	Fairy Fan-Flower	Scaevola aemula
Ground covers	Star Jasmine	Trachelospermum jasminoides ‘Tricolor’
Ground covers	Fragrant Society Garlic	Tulbaghia simmleri
Ground covers	Native Violet	Viola banksii

Category	Common name	Species name
Shrubs	Bush Candles	Banksia 'Bush Candles'
Shrubs	Pygmy Possum	Banksia 'Pygmy Possum'
Shrubs	Hairy Guinea Flower	Hibbertia vestita
Shrubs	Showy Sauropus	Sauropus albiflorus
Shrubs	Tiny Trev	Syzygium cv
Shrubs	Midjim Berry	Austromyrtus dulcis

Category	Common name	Species name
Edible	Cape York Tumerica	Curcuma australiasica
Edible	Midyim Copper Tops	Austromytrus dulcis x tenuifolia
Edible	Midyim or Midgen Berry	Austromyrtus dulcis
Edible	Lemon Myrtle	Backhousia citriodora
Edible	Lilly Pilly – Rain Cherry	Syzygiunm fibrosum
Edible	Aniseed Myrtle	Backhousia anisata
Edible	Parsley	Petroselinum crispum
Edible	Rosemary	Rosmarinus officinalis
Edible	Mint	Mentha
Edible	Dill	Anethum graveolens
Edible	Lavender	Lavandula

Kataloq: sites -> default -> files
files -> Parodontologie
files -> Бу хмао-югры
files -> Schedule b financial Contributions for Transition in the
files -> Guidance note on transferring contributions from one un agency to another for the purpose of programmatic activities