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Plants Suited To Sandy Soils
Some plants
are particularly suited to growing in sandy soils, especially
Australian coastal natives. Some plants may tolerate dry conditions,
whilst other may need some watering over summer.
The addition of well-rotted compost or well-aged animal manure
improves the moisture–holding qualities of the sand. This
will encourage worms and continue to break-down and improve the
soil, and also help prevent the soil from drying out. Only aged
manures should be used.
Using organic mulches on the surface, or soil wetter, will help
retain moisture as the surface of sandy soils tends to dry out
and repel water rather than soaking it in.
The following plants will grow especially well in sandy soils
and coastal environments. You should also ask your local Nursery
for advice.
Beard Heath
Cabbage Palm
Brush Box
Silver Wattle
Flinders Range Wattle
Salty She-Oak
Drooping She- Oak
Cats Paw
Kangaroo Paw
Red & Green Kangaroo Paw
Kangaroo Paw
Native Dutchman's Pipe
Midyim, Midgers Berry
Wallum Banksia
Banksia Burgundy or Heath Banksia
Heath Banksia
Coast Banksia
Prostrate Coast Banksia
Silver Banksia
Orange Banksia, Acorn Banksia
Creeping Banksia
Swamp Banksia
Saw Leaf Banksia
Sand Bottlebrush
Sweet Apple Berry
Red Biillardiera
Common Appleberry
Soft water fern
Sunset Serenade
Native Daisy
Swan River Pea
Sweet Bursaria, Prickin Box Blackthorn
Callistemon 'Captain Cook'
Callistemon citrinus 'Angela'
Callistemon citrinus 'Endevour'
Callistemon citrinus 'White Ice'
Callistemon 'Dawson River Weeper'
Callistemon 'Demesne Prestige Pink'
Callistemon 'Kings Park Special'
Callistemon 'Lavender Showers'
Callistemon 'Tinaroo Dazzler'
Callistemon 'Taree Pink'
Callistemon speciosus
Callistemon 'Eureka'- violet rose form
Southern Cypress-pine
One-sided Bottlebrush
Canirium australisicum
Darwin Palm
Coastal She-oak
Geraldton Wax
Heart-leaved Flame Pea
Golden Buttons
Old man's beard
Small-leaf clematis
Grey cottonheads
Native Fuchsia
Salmon Correa
Common Correa - Prostrate
Native Fuchsia
Brown Laurel
Lemon Scent Grass
Dampiera diversifolia
Blue Eyes
Common Wallaby Grass
Wallaby Grass
Flax-Lily or Paroo Lily
Spreading Flax-Lilly
Flax Lilly
Tasman Flax-lily
Gymea Lily
Cascade of Stars
Silver Princess
Broad-leaved peppermint
Red capped gum - Illyarie
Red flowering gum
SA Blue Gum
Large fruited white gum - Blue Gum
Swamp Bloodwood/Gove Gum
Wandoo
Weeping fig
Red Fruited Saw Sedge
Native Fuchsia
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Grevillea Superb
Grevillea Honey Gem
Grevillea 'Sunset Bronze'
Grevillea 'John Evans'
Grevillea Splendour
Grevillea Scarlet Sprite Evergreen
Grevillea Misty Pink
Grevillea 'Kay Williams'
Bank's Grevillia
Grevillea crithmifolia
Grevillea 'Firesprite'
Grevillea 'Austraflora Bon Accord'
Lavender Grevillea
Grevillea 'Simply Sarah'
Grevillea 'Elegance'
'Gin Gin' Grevillea
Gin Gin Gem form
Olive Leaf Grevillea
Grevillea 'Sylvia'
Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Mantle'
Fern Leaved Grevillea
Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon'
Grevillea 'Sandra Gordon'
"Teaspray" or Gilt Dragon
Spider Net Grevillea 'Guilt Dragon'
Ellendale
Grevillea spp.
Byfield Grevillea
Spider Flower
Yanchep Bell
Red Pokers
Pin-cushion Hakea
Pin-cushion Hakea
Nettle bush
Native wisteria Native Lilac, Wild Sarsapirllia
Happy Wanderer
Native Lilac
Snake Bush
Snake Vine
Star Guinea Flower
Common Waxflower, Native Hoya
White Myrtle
Knobby Club-Rush
Black coral Pea
Running Postman
Scarlet kunzea
Muntries or Muntenberry
Leptospermum 'Horizontalis'
Silky Tea-tree
Weeping-tree
Lemon Scented Teatree
Nardoo
Rainbow Nardoo
SiIver leafed paperbark
Corkwood
Weeping Grass, Meadow Rice Grass
Native Wisteria
Mimusops elengi
Creeping Boobialla, Dwarf Native Myrtle
Sticky Boobyalla
Spiral Screw Palm
Wonga Vine
Purple Flags
Yellow FlameTree
Native Apricot
Tussock Grass
Pongamia pinnata
Psychotria loniceroides
Tassel Cord Rush
Paper Cascade
Everlasting
Red bush apple
Tamarind
Cockies Tongue
Terminalia sericocarpa
Kangaroo Grass
Pink Thryptomene
Thryptomene
Rock thryptomene
Golden Feather Flower
Violet Westringia
Grass Tree
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