Because Australian blooms often last for weeks, they first made their mark in this country via the cut flower world. But their foliage can introduce great texture to a garden, as is evidenced by the shrubs and trees featured on these pages: from serrated and wispy to fernlike and from subtle and shimmering to graphically bold.
Pictured from left to right: Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’, Anigozanthos ‘Amber Velvet’, Hardenbergia violacea ‘Meema’, Acacia saligna, Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’