{"title":"Climbing Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003eClimbers do the work of a screen in the width of a garden bed. A 300mm strip along a boundary, the bare face of a steel fence, a pergola carrying too much afternoon sun: these are the jobs that suit a vine and defeat a shrub. Reach for this group when you need cover in a vertical plane and no room for a canopy. Tube stock at 70mm and 140mm covers a long run of fence cheaply, while the 45L star jasmine and 200L wisteria put height on a structure in the first season rather than the third.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow a climber holds on decides the hardware. Twiners wrap, so fix wire, mesh or a trellis 40mm to 50mm off the surface before planting. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-jasminoides\"\u003eStar Jasmine - Trachelospermum jasminoides\u003c\/a\u003e is the usual pick, evergreen, scented from spring into early summer and steady rather than rampant. It is also stocked staked and tripod-trained if you want a finished look sooner. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-violacea\"\u003ePurple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia violacea\u003c\/a\u003e is the native option, lighter in habit, flowering from late winter into spring. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pandorea-jasminoides-bower-of-beauty\"\u003eBower Vine - Pandorea jasminoides Bower of Beauty\u003c\/a\u003e is evergreen and fills a pergola quickly in warm and coastal gardens, though it is frost tender inland. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/wisteria-sinensis-chinese-wisteria\"\u003eChinese Wisteria - Wisteria sinensis\u003c\/a\u003e is deciduous and very heavy at maturity, so it wants a structural pergola and two prunings a year; unpruned plants commonly reach the roofline, and stems that work into gutters are expensive to get out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelf-clingers attach without hardware, and that is the catch. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fig-ficus-pumila\"\u003eCreeping Fig - Ficus pumila\u003c\/a\u003e and Boston Ivy - Parthenocissus tricuspidata Lowii climb masonry on their own, but the holdfasts bond to paint, render and mortar joints and lift the surface with them when the plant is pulled away. Removal is slow work, and older creeping fig pushes woody stems into mortar. Keep both to brick, block or bare concrete you intend to leave covered, not a rendered or painted wall you may want back. Boston Ivy is also deciduous, so the cover is bare stems through winter. Vigour cuts the other way too: English Ivy, pink jasmine and orange trumpet vine are all listed here and all are recorded as environmental weeds in parts of eastern and southern Australia, so check your state weed list before planting one near bushland or a watercourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost climbers that fail were planted in the wrong 300mm. The ground hard against a fence or wall is compacted from construction, full of builders rubble, and sits in the rain shadow of the eave or the fence, so it stays dry through summer even in a wet week. Plant 400mm to 500mm out instead, in soil you have dug over and improved, and lead the stems back to the support with a stake or wire. Water at the base through the first two summers, keep mulch off the stem, and feed once new growth appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you want height and cover rather than a vine specifically, compare \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003ePrivacy Screening\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/low-maintenance\"\u003eLow Maintenance Plants\u003c\/a\u003e. Native plantings can start at \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/purple-coral-pea\"\u003ePurple Coral Pea\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/figs-and-ficus\"\u003eFigs and Ficus\u003c\/a\u003e covers the rest of the Ficus range. Every order ships farm-direct with flat $99 delivery across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, a $399 minimum order, and the 30-Day Healthy Plant Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"pd-range-index\"\u003eNot sure where to start? Browse \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/complete-plant-range-index\"\u003ethe full range index\u003c\/a\u003e, every collection and guide in one place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"pd-hub-guide\"\u003eNew to these plants? Read our guide: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/climbing-plants-for-fences-and-pergolas\"\u003eClimbers for fences, pergolas and screens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dipladenia-red-riding-hood","title":"Dipladenia Red Riding Hood (Mandevilla)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTreat this one as a warm season plant and it will not let you down. Red Riding Hood is a Dipladenia, so it is bushier and more self branching than the true climbing Mandevillas, and the small trellis it comes on is more a support than a training frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoliage is small, glossy and dark, evergreen where winters are mild, and the trumpet flowers are a deep red pink that keeps coming from spring until the weather cools off. Pots on a north facing balcony, beside a pool, or either side of a doorway all suit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold and wet together are what kill it. In Melbourne, Adelaide or Canberra, keep it potted under cover through winter and cut the water right back; in Brisbane it simply carries on. Watch for mealybug and mite where it sits dry under eaves, and note that the sap is milky and can irritate skin, so pull the gloves on before you prune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 14cm w\/Trellis up to 140mm, priced from $19.95 to $24.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308762444145,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"14cm w\/Trellis","offer_id":64311680336241,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/kOB8PC9wCW8lgj9SX96uO_uUUNcrkq.jpg?v=1787627820"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-comptoniana","title":"Native Wisteria - Hardenbergia comptoniana","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestern Australia contributes this one to the trade, and it differs from the eastern coral pea in a way you can see at a glance: the leaves are divided into three narrow leaflets rather than carried as a single broad blade. It is an evergreen twiner, light in build rather than heavy, and it climbs by winding its stems instead of clinging, so it needs wire, mesh or an open lattice to get anywhere at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSprays of small purple pea flowers appear through the cooler end of the year and carry on into spring, held in loose trailing racemes that look best when the plant is grown high enough to be seen from below. Landscapers run it over courtyard screens, along balustrades and through low native shrubs where it scrambles rather than climbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe usual problem is wet feet. Drainage matters far more to it than fertility, and soggy winter soil in heavy clay will kill an established plant faster than any drought. Prune after flowering to keep the base clothed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 130mm up to 140mm, priced from $16.95 to $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308959936881,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311638393201,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/IYXa1PzJR1EHqmw6lwgVV_xPrjBxH8.jpg?v=1787628215"},{"product_id":"hardenbergia-happy-wanderer","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia Happy Wanderer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHappy Wanderer is the cultivar most people actually mean when they ask for a native climber with purple flowers. It is a selected form of Hardenbergia violacea, evergreen, with leathery dark leaves that are single and lance shaped rather than divided into leaflets, which is the quickest way to tell it apart from Hardenbergia comptoniana on a nursery bench.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is vigorous. That is the point of it and also the warning: over a couple of seasons it will clothe a chain wire fence, run the length of a retaining wall or pour down a bank, and it will smother a small shrub planted beside it if nobody intervenes. Cut it back after the winter to spring flush of violet pea flowers and it responds well to the discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun gives the heaviest flowering. It copes with dry, poor and gravelly ground once established, dislikes soil that stays wet, and resents heavy phosphorus fertiliser. We stock it in 200mm and 5lt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 200mm up to 5L, priced from $29.95 to $30.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308959969649,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64308960002417,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/8vE8Ob8WW_Ss19ae1Oiyx_hQcpS7qO.jpg?v=1787628213"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-violacea-mini-haha","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia violacea Mini HaHa","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot a climber, whatever you remember about coral pea. Mini Ha Ha is a compact, self supporting form of Hardenbergia violacea that mounds into a low dome of leathery evergreen leaves and stays put, which is why it goes into pots, low borders, letterbox beds and mass plantings where Happy Wanderer would have swallowed the fence. If someone is choosing between the two, that is the entire difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlowering is the late winter and early spring show native gardens lean on, sprays of small purple pea flowers held clear of the foliage while most of the garden is still asleep. Shear the spent stems back lightly once it finishes, because hardenbergia sets seed pods and looks tired if you leave them on. Drainage matters more than anything else here; the plant rots in heavy clay that stays wet, so mound it or plant on a slope. Sun with some relief from harsh afternoon heat inland suits it best, and it takes low phosphorus native fertiliser only. Supplied in 140mm pots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308960887153,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308960919921,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/LPM1-cPAO7JoFIpY9SYIa_qfZAumiH.jpg?v=1787628215"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-violacea-sweet-heart","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia violacea Sweet Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere the older Hardenbergia selections run and sprawl, Sweet Heart was picked for restraint. It is a compact evergreen form of Hardenbergia violacea with rounded, almost heart shaped leaves, and it behaves more like a soft mounding shrub than a climber unless you give it something to lean on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat makes it useful in the situations where the straight species becomes a nuisance: mass planted on a batter, spilling over a low wall, in a large pot on a hot balcony, or edging a native bed where a full sized coral pea would swallow its neighbours. Purple pea flowers cover the plant in late winter and early spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo things to watch. It still wants sharp drainage and a sunny to lightly shaded position, and in real shade it stretches and flowers thinly. It is also not long lived by shrub standards, so treat it as a plant you refresh every several years rather than one you inherit. A light trim once flowering finishes keeps the mound dense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 250mm, priced from $18.95 to $59.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308961476977,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64308961509745,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64308961542513,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/CRrIhZUo97ZxtItk05P9e_ueGvIph1.jpg?v=1787628213"},{"product_id":"jasmin-polyanthum","title":"Pink Jasmine - Jasmin polyanthum","description":"\u003cp\u003eListed here under the trade spelling Jasmin polyanthum, this is the pink jasmine that scents half the street in late winter. Tight rosy buds open to small white stars, and the perfume carries a long way on a still evening. Growth is twining and genuinely vigorous, so a 140mm plant needs a wire, trellis or post from the day it goes in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical points. First, prune it hard as soon as flowering finishes, because next season's buds form on the growth made through spring and summer, and a late tidy-up removes the display. Second, this species has naturalised in bushland in parts of New South Wales and Victoria, so keep it off boundaries backing onto reserves and bin the prunings rather than heaping them over the fence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a pot it works well on a balcony or beside a doorway where the scent is held in, provided you keep the water up through summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $19.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309003878769,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/DTNRlCqn6HQdzAPA2hTEN_XvRkLUzA.jpg?v=1787628342"},{"product_id":"jasminum-polyanthum-triple-staked","title":"Pink Jasmine - Jasminum polyanthum Triple Staked","description":"\u003cp\u003eTriple staked describes the format: three young pink jasmine plants grown together in one 300mm pot and trained up canes, so the plant arrives already clothed rather than as a single thin whip. For a courtyard, pool fence or balcony screen that saves a season or two of waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant itself is evergreen, with dark divided leaves and, from late winter, sprays of pink buds opening white and heavily perfumed. It twines rather than clings, so it wants something to wrap around. Thin wire will eventually be strangled, and any stem that reaches a nearby shrub will climb straight into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree plants in one pot dry out quickly, so water more often than the pot size suggests until the roots move into the ground. Cut it back straight after flowering, hard if you need to, and it will rebuild well before the next show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivery is a flat $99 to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA on orders over $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 300mm, at $91.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309004403057,"sku":null,"price":91.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/F58KOHV-erx9HxqVFY8gG_Nc4KJkFX.jpg?v=1787628280"},{"product_id":"pandorea-snowbells","title":"Bower Vine - Pandorea Snowbells","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere a bower vine has something solid to climb, it will cover it. Snowbells is a white-flowered selection in the bower vine group, carrying the same glossy deep green pinnate leaves and the same trumpet-shaped flowers through the warmer months, with most of the interest coming from the marked throat rather than the petals themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt twines rather than clinging, so it needs wire, mesh, lattice or an open framework to get away. Fixed flat to a rendered wall with nothing to wrap around, it will sit there and sulk. On a pergola it is genuinely useful, because it stays in leaf year round and tends to hold cover lower down instead of going bare and woody at the base the way many climbers do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch two things. Aphids find the soft new tips every spring and are best dealt with early. And it can swallow a light structure faster than expected, so build in an annual cut back after flowering rather than facing a rescue job every third year. Only 5lt stock is grown for this one, from a single farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64309264843121,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/0E3JAJbnJhtEM9ROpY2cn_68WYAxCI.jpg?v=1787628611"},{"product_id":"pandorea-wonga-gold-sunrise","title":"Bower Vine - Pandorea Wonga Gold Sunrise","description":"\u003cp\u003eWonga wonga vine is the tougher, more forgiving half of this genus. Where the bower vines want warmth and a bit of shelter, Pandorea pandorana and its selections take cold snaps, drier ground and coastal wind with far less fuss, which is why they turn up on farm fences and exposed suburban boundaries all over the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGold Sunrise flowers in the cream to golden range rather than the pinks. The individual blooms are much smaller than a bower vine flower, but they come in dense clusters through late winter and spring and smother the plant. The foliage is fine, glossy and evergreen, and growth is dense enough that it screens properly instead of showing daylight through the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it wire or mesh to twine through, plant it where you can reach both sides for pruning, and cut it back straight after flowering. Left alone for a few seasons it builds a heavy woody tangle up top and goes bare underneath. Grown in 5lt from one farm, so quantity is limited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64309265629553,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/QYPOXyIqbMvMc02lMb81__JAvcGFBP.jpg?v=1787628612"},{"product_id":"pyrostegia-ignea","title":"Orange Trumpet Vine - Pyrostegia ignea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you have a long stretch of chain wire, a shed wall or a heavy pergola to cover, orange trumpet vine will do it faster than almost anything else you can plant. Pyrostegia ignea, more often listed now as P. venusta, is a Brazilian climber that grips with tendrils and then throws out cascades of narrow orange tubular flowers through winter and early spring, when little else in the garden is doing anything. In mild frost free districts it holds its leaves all year and simply slows in cold weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vigour is the catch. It wants a strong structure rather than a light trellis, and it will run into gutters, roof cavities and neighbouring trees if nobody takes to it. Cut it back hard straight after flowering finishes, which also keeps the flowering wood low enough to actually see from the ground. One district note: in subtropical Queensland and northern New South Wales it escapes gardens and smothers native vegetation along creek lines and bushland edges, so if you are anywhere near remnant bush up that way, plant something less determined. South of that it stays where you put it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun gives the heaviest flowering; in shade you get leaf and very little colour. Well drained soil, and go easy on the nitrogen for the same reason. Sold in 5 litre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $30.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64309363638641,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/oYq2Ndt3VJJ-nGnmMJkCD_YrohpF5u.jpg?v=1787628749"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-jasminoides-tripods","title":"Star Jasmine - Trachelospermum jasminoides Tripods","description":"\u003cp\u003eTripods are the head start version of this plant: three canes and a season of growth already on board, so a fence or screen frame covers in a fraction of the time it takes from a small pot. This is the usual choice when a landscape job has to look finished on handover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStar jasmine takes full sun through to fairly deep shade, but flowering drops away noticeably as the shade deepens, so give it at least half a day of light if the scent is the point. It also works unstaked as a tough groundcover over banks, sheared once a year to keep it flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep an eye on where it heads. Given anything to grab, it will climb into gutters, downpipes and neighbouring shrubs, and it accepts a hard annual cut back without complaint. Water deeply through the first two summers while the roots go down. Delivery is a flat $99 to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA on orders over $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 7 sizes, from 200mm up to 400mm, priced from $30.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309517418865,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm Deep","offer_id":64309517451633,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64309517484401,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm Squat","offer_id":64309517517169,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309517549937,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64309517582705,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309517615473,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/S0fDkpC4KNIxo0CNFz2T__QNlO25X4.jpg?v=1787629017"},{"product_id":"wisteria-floribunda","title":"Japanese Wisteria - Wisteria floribunda","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive this one a structure you would trust to hold up a car. Japanese wisteria is a heavy woody twiner that thickens with every year, and over time it will crush light timber pergolas, lever gutters off fascia boards and strangle whatever it wraps. Steel or solid hardwood, built oversized, is the only sensible support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn return you get the long hanging racemes the species is known for, held clear of the deciduous foliage and opening progressively from the base towards the tip, which draws the spring display out over weeks. The leaves push at much the same time as the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo habits are worth learning. Prune twice a year: shorten the whippy summer growth back to a few buds in late summer, then tidy those spurs again while the plant is bare. And keep nitrogen away from the root zone, because lawn fertiliser near a wisteria gives you a monster of leaf and almost no flower. Seedling plants can take many years to bloom. The seeds are toxic if eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 200mm, at $34.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309555560817,"sku":null,"price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12L","offer_id":64446151786865,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/YHto8SliHHXu9OP98wBGM_f7t8Plur.jpg?v=1787629018"},{"product_id":"wisteria-floribunda-royal-purple-purple-japanese-wisteria","title":"Japanese Wisteria - Wisteria floribunda Royal Purple","description":"\u003cp\u003eColour is the reason to choose this one. 'Royal Purple' is a deep violet-purple form of Japanese wisteria, darker and more saturated than the common mauve seedling material, and the tone shows best hanging against a pale rendered wall or open sky rather than into dark green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuying at advanced pot size means real stem calliper already made, which matters if you plan to train it as a free-standing standard on a stout stake instead of running it along a pergola. That is a sound option for a courtyard because it keeps the plant contained. Wisteria roots are opportunistic, so keep them well away from drainage lines, septic trenches and paving edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlowers come from short spurs, which makes summer shortening of the long trailing shoots the single most important job of the year. In hot inland gardens the purple bleaches under full afternoon sun, so morning light with afternoon shelter holds the colour longer. Delivery is a flat $99 to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA on orders over $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 300mm, at $129.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64309556904305,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20L","offer_id":64446151852401,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/I6YSkX3hLsyLoMPSG5B3F_PS8MmG7H.jpg?v=1787629017"},{"product_id":"wisteria-sinensis-chinese-wisteria","title":"Chinese Wisteria - Wisteria sinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf your pergola is not steel or hardwood, reconsider before planting Chinese wisteria against it. Mature stems thicken into ropes with real leverage behind them, and over time they lift gutters, crush lattice and split a timber post. Build for it properly, or grow it as a standard on its own stake and keep it off the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDone well, there is little to touch it. The flowers hang in long scented racemes on bare wood in spring, opening more or less all at once along the raceme, which is one way growers separate it from the Japanese species that opens gradually from the base. Chinese wisteria also twines anticlockwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical points. Buy grafted or cutting grown stock, because seedlings can take many years to flower and some never perform. And prune twice a year: shorten the whippy summer growth back to a few buds, then tidy those same spurs in winter. Skip that and you get a great deal of leaf and very little flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 7 sizes, from 200mm up to 200L, priced from $39.95 to $1209.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311339221361,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311339254129,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64311339286897,"sku":null,"price":329.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311339319665,"sku":null,"price":87.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64311339385201,"sku":null,"price":1209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311339417969,"sku":null,"price":179.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311339450737,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12L","offer_id":64446155555185,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/intJ3tE52QsFzXAwqGRwy_ijXPd8Vr.jpg?v=1787629185"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-sea-of-purple","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia Sea of Purple","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlike the low mounding coral peas sold for rockeries, this one climbs. Given wire, a lattice panel or the skirt of an established shrub, it twines its way up and then hangs in sheets of deep purple pea flowers through the tail of winter and into spring, which is exactly when most gardens have nothing else going on. The leaves are narrow, leathery and dark, and they stay on the plant year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a legume, so go easy on rich fertiliser. Too much feeding gives you a mass of growth and very few flowers. It wants free draining soil and dislikes sitting wet through summer, which is the usual reason a plant that looked fine a week earlier suddenly collapses. Cut it back straight after flowering rather than in autumn, or you will remove the wood carrying next season's buds. Left to run over a bank or a rock face with nothing to climb, it works just as well as a scrambling groundcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311361667441,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/HXXZs9EUEumMesT5_zSo2_5ZzU3DMI.jpg?v=1787629187"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-jasminoides","title":"Star Jasmine - Trachelospermum jasminoides","description":"\u003cp\u003eStar jasmine is an evergreen twiner with dark glossy leaves and a short heavy flush of white pinwheel flowers in late spring and early summer, scented strongly enough to pick up from the far end of a courtyard. One plant will do three separate jobs in a garden, working as a screen on wire, a clipped green panel on a batten frame, or a dense groundcover pinned flat down a batter. Most buyers want it for the fence line, where it covers hard and holds its leaf through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTraining the leaders in the first year\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt grows from the subtropics to Hobart, taking frost, coastal exposure and heat once established, and only bronzing over the leaf in cold inland winters before greening up in spring. Soil needs to drain, but it is not fussy beyond that. Full sun gives the heaviest flowering and the tightest growth, while shade keeps it green and healthy and thins the flowers noticeably. Space plants along a fence at about one per metre and expect a slow first season while roots establish, then fast cover after that. The mistake that costs people a year is letting the plant climb unsupervised. Star jasmine twines and does not properly self cling, so a young plant left alone sends every shoot vertically, hits the top of the fence and leaves a permanent bare patch across the bottom. Tie the leaders onto the lowest wire and run them sideways instead of upward, filling the base first and working up. Fixing a bare base later means cutting the whole plant down and starting again, which costs another two seasons of cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStar jasmine or the flatter asiaticum\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one it gets confused with is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-asiaticum\"\u003eTrachelospermum asiaticum\u003c\/a\u003e, which has smaller darker leaves, sparse cream to yellow flowers and almost no perfume, and which spreads as a mat rather than climbing. Buy asiaticum for groundcover; buy this one for anything vertical, and for the scent. Against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pandorea-jasminoides-bower-of-beauty\"\u003eBower of Beauty\u003c\/a\u003e the trade is flowering season for perfume and toughness. The pandorea flowers in flushes right through the warm months with far showier trumpets, but wants a frost free garden, while star jasmine gives a few weeks of flower, a much stronger scent, denser evergreen cover and enough cold tolerance for Melbourne and the tablelands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShearing after the flush, and gloves\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune straight after flowering finishes in early summer, which is the window that costs the fewest buds next season, since the wood that carries them is laid down over the months that follow. Shear a clipped panel to shape then, and cut a screening plant back to its framework, removing any long whips that have thrown themselves out into open air. On a groundcover planting, shear the surface flat and pin any wandering runners back down. The milky sap irritates some skin, so wear gloves and long sleeves. Feed in early spring with a slow release fertiliser and water deeply through the first two summers. See more screening options in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 140mm up to 45L, priced from $16.95 to $269.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311362650481,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311362683249,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311362716017,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311362748785,"sku":null,"price":219.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64311362781553,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311362814321,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311362847089,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311362879857,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-star-jasmine-trachelospermum-jasminoides-20260609_14270d89-adcd-4706-aa00-715c70808a27.png?v=1785551652"},{"product_id":"fig-ficus-pumila","title":"Creeping Fig - Ficus pumila (Ficus repens)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreeping fig is the one climber in this range, a self-clinging vine that lays flat overlapping sheets of small heart-shaped leaves straight onto masonry without wires, mesh or a frame. Adhesive rootlets do the gripping, bonding to concrete, besser block, mortar and render hard enough to hold for decades. Pool builders, strata managers and courtyard designers use it because it covers a blank wall quickly and evenly, and the small pot sizes double as indoor trailers and terrarium fillers in bright indirect light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhich walls it belongs on\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun to part shade suits it from the tropics down to cool temperate gardens, and it handles coastal exposure and reflected heat once it has attached. Keep moisture up steadily through the first year, because that is when the rootlets bite, and a plant that dries out repeatedly lets go of the wall and has to start over. Any reasonable garden soil does, improved with compost and mulched at the base, and plants set 600mm to 900mm apart along a wall knit together evenly. In warm humid districts it also runs along the ground and roots as it goes, so give nearby beds a defined edge. The failure mode here is not the plant, it is the surface you put it on. Those rootlets bond permanently to paint, render and mortar, and pulling the growth off later takes the coating with it and leaves a lasting shadow of root scars underneath. On raw concrete, besser block or a retaining wall you will never resurface, that is a fair trade. On a painted wall, on a neighbour's fence, or anywhere it can reach window frames, gutters and roof tiles, it is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCreeping fig against the clipped figs\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery other fig in this range is a tree you either let run or clip into shape. This one has no trunk to speak of and needs a vertical surface to do anything at all. If the goal is screening in front of a wall rather than on it, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fig-ficus-microcarpa-hillii\"\u003eHill's Weeping Fig\u003c\/a\u003e is the better pick, because a pleached or clipped panel stands clear of the render and can be cut back to a frame without taking the surface with it. Choose creeping fig when the wall itself is the eyesore and you want it under foliage permanently. Indoors, the small sizes trail from a shelf or soften a pot rim, while \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fig-ficus-lyrata\"\u003eFiddle Leaf Fig\u003c\/a\u003e gives you an upright leafy specimen instead. It also sits alongside the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/climbers\"\u003eclimbers\u003c\/a\u003e for wire and trellis work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShearing and feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShear it two or three times a year, in early spring and again through summer, to keep the flat juvenile growth coming. Left alone it matures into coarse woody stems that stand out from the wall, carrying large leathery leaves and small inedible figs, and reversing that takes a hard cut back into old wood and a scruffy season afterwards. Trim it clear of gutters, window frames and roof edges every time you go near it. Feed in early spring and again in early summer with a complete slow release fertiliser, and water through dry spells while it is establishing. Renew mulch at the base each spring. Wear gloves, since the milky sap irritates skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 70mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"70mm","offer_id":64311375430001,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311375462769,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311375495537,"sku":null,"price":20.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"130mm","offer_id":64311375528305,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311375561073,"sku":null,"price":20.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311375593841,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-climbing-fig-ficus-pumila_19f71058-c8d7-4b2f-ba03-852a7c3736cd.png?v=1785551682"},{"product_id":"pandorea-jasminoides-bower-of-beauty","title":"Bower Vine - Pandorea jasminoides Bower of Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003eBower of Beauty is the pink selection of the bower vine, with wide open trumpets marked by a deep rose to crimson throat, carried in flushes from spring through the warm months. Foliage stays glossy and divided all year, which makes it better cover for a fence or a carport than most deciduous climbers, and it is vigorous without behaving like a thug. It twines rather than clinging, so it wants wire or lattice, and it is usually planted where a bare paling fence needs covering quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKeeping the bottom half clothed\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarm coastal and subtropical gardens are where it performs. It grows happily through Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and coastal New South Wales, tolerates a light frost once woody and sulks badly through a hard one. Give it composted free draining soil, full sun to part shade, and shelter from salt laden wind. Support it properly with wire or mesh, since it has no tendrils, suckers or aerial roots and will not attach itself to masonry, which at least means it does no damage to render or paintwork. The predictable failure is bare ankles. Left alone, every strong shoot races for the top of the support, flowers at head height and above, and the lower half turns into a bundle of leafless woody stems that no amount of feeding will re clothe. Head that off from the first year: pick two or three long stems each season and cut them back to knee height so the plant is always making new growth from low down. Where the base has already gone, plant a low hedge or shrubs in front of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePink, or the white Alba\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts sibling here is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pandorea-jasminoides-alba\"\u003ePandorea jasminoides Alba\u003c\/a\u003e, the white form without the marked throat. Growth habit and care are the same, so pick on how the colour sits in your garden. Bower of Beauty carries across a distance and looks right against dark stained timber, green hedging or a colorbond fence, and it is the one most people picture when they hear bower vine. Alba is quieter and better against red brick or terracotta. Where a pergola needs perfume more than flower size, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-jasminoides\"\u003estar jasmine\u003c\/a\u003e is the alternative, though it gives a few weeks of flower rather than a long warm season of them, and it takes far more cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePruning after the flush\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune the whole plant back after the main flowering flush, shortening the season growth and thinning any tangle where stems have wound over each other. Combine that with the annual hard cut on a couple of low stems so new growth keeps coming from the base. Avoid pruning late in autumn in cooler districts, since soft new growth is what frost damages first. Feed in early spring and again after the first flush with a complete slow release fertiliser. Being an Australian native does not make this one phosphorus sensitive the way a grevillea or a banksia is, and a long flowering season on a vine this vigorous needs a full ration rather than a native blend. Mulch to keep the root run cool through summer. More options in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/climbers\"\u003eclimbers\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311417995633,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311418028401,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311418061169,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-bower-of-beauty-pandorea-pandorea-jasminoides-bower-of-beauty_79d02b10-a5d1-4e68-a3c9-312da9466c4d.png?v=1785551769"},{"product_id":"bolusanthus-speciosus","title":"Tree Wisteria - Bolusanthus speciosus","description":"\u003cp\u003eTree wisteria is a slender South African tree hung with drooping sprays of violet blue pea flowers in spring, the wisteria effect delivered on a single trunk instead of a pergola. Its foliage is fine and pinnate, almost feathery, so the shade beneath stays light and grass or underplanting still grows there. It is used as a small feature tree where a big canopy would not fit: courtyards, pool surrounds, front gardens, and the awkward strip beside a driveway where a larger tree would eventually cause trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHeat, drainage and the first winters\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt comes from hot, seasonally dry country in southern Africa and it wants heat and soil that drains freely. Sandy loam, gravelly ground and raised beds all suit it, while heavy clay holding water through winter does not, and it copes with dry spells once it has settled in. Moderate water through the establishing years is enough. It performs well in Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and warm inland districts, and in cooler gardens it is worth giving it a north facing wall and shelter from cold wind. Dig the hole no deeper than the root ball and backfill with the soil that came out of it. The roots are well behaved and the crown stays compact, which is what makes it usable close to paving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe failure mode is frost on a young tree. Established trees take light frost, but a newly planted one can be cut back to the ground by a hard winter in a cool inland garden. Plant in spring rather than autumn so it has a full warm season in the ground first, and cover or wrap it through the first couple of winters anywhere frost is likely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA small feature tree against the big natives\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing else in this range fills the same slot. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/paperbark-melaleuca-preissiana\"\u003eModong\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/she-oak-casuarina-glauca\"\u003eswamp she-oak\u003c\/a\u003e are the other trees here, and both are large, litter dropping shelter and revegetation species for open ground, paddock edges and wet sites. Tree wisteria is the opposite brief: a compact, well mannered specimen for a small garden, grown for flower rather than shelter, and safe to plant near paving and a pool. If your site is a large block with room to spare, take a paperbark or a she-oak. If it is a courtyard and you get one tree only, this is the one to plant, and it is the only one of the three you would choose for flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShaping a young tree\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune once flowering finishes in late spring, while the tree is young and the cuts are still small. Select a single leader, remove crossing branches, and lift the canopy gradually to the clearance you want underneath, then keep pruning to a minimum, because the naturally narrow shape needs very little help from you. Feed in early spring with a complete fertiliser, water it in and mulch out towards the drip line, keeping the mulch off the trunk. Stake a newly planted tree loosely for its first year in a windy position and take the stake off once the trunk thickens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 300mm, at $139.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311419404657,"sku":null,"price":139.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-tree-wisteria-bolusanthus-speciosus-20260611_ea9f02a4-7141-4b14-a15f-6f1468ec42d9.png?v=1785551770"},{"product_id":"gardenia-augusta-magnifica","title":"Gardenia augusta Magnifica (Gardenia jasminoides)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagnifica is the large flowered form of the group, a broader and heavier shrub than the others, with big deep green leaves that hold a lacquered shine. The blooms are the point of difference: substantial doubles, white opening and ageing to cream, heavily scented, and carried in smaller numbers than the fine leaved types produce because each one is so much bigger. It fills a border on its own, works as a loose low screen, and carries a large pot where a smaller gardenia would look thin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eBig leaves, big flowers and yellowing from the bottom up\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart shade with protection from hot afternoon sun is the position, as the specs list, and it will take more sun in a cool district than it ever will in the subtropics. Plant into acidic, free draining soil with plenty of compost, mulch to keep the roots cool, and allow around 80cm to a metre between plants where several are run together as a screen. Even moisture matters more than volume; buds drop if the plant dries out or is shifted while it is setting them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYellowing is the classic gardenia failure, and on Magnifica it usually starts as magnesium hunger rather than the alkaline soil trouble the smaller forms run into. A canopy of big leaves carrying big flowers pulls magnesium out of the plant faster than a fine leaved gardenia does, and the drain runs hardest right through the flowering flush. The tell is on the older leaves low down: yellow creeping in from the margins and leaving a green wedge along the midrib, while the tips stay dark. General and high potassium fertilisers make it worse, because potassium competes with magnesium at the root. Water in Epsom salts as the flush starts and again once it finishes, feed with a food made for acid loving plants rather than a rose or lawn product, and test the pH before reaching for iron, since pale new leaves with dark veins point to alkaline ground and locked up iron instead, which is a different fix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eWhen size is the reason to choose Magnifica\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eChoosing between the augusta forms comes down to scale. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gardenia-augusta-florida\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/a\u003e is the tidier, mid sized plant for a clipped low hedge or matched pots, and it flowers more freely with smaller blooms. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gardenia-grandiflora-star\"\u003eGrandiflora Star\u003c\/a\u003e breaks the pattern with single, flat, star shaped flowers instead of doubles, for anyone who finds the double form too formal. Magnifica is the one to buy when you want size in both leaf and flower: a specimen beside a doorway, a deep border that needs filling, or a large container. It is the poorest choice of the three for tight clipping. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flowering\"\u003eflowering plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003ePruning a heavy canopy and feeding it\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrune once the main flush is over, shortening stems by a third at most and taking out thin twiggy wood at the base so air moves through what is a dense canopy. Avoid cutting after early autumn. Feed in spring and again in midsummer with an azalea and camellia food, water it in well, and top up mulch afterwards. Scale and mealybug settle into the leaf joints on plants this heavily furnished and bring sooty mould with them, so check undersides while you prune and treat with horticultural oil in warm weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 140mm up to 300mm, priced from $16.95 to $88.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311426613617,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311426646385,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311426679153,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311426711921,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311426744689,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-magnifica-gardenia-gardenia-augusta-magnifica-20260611_8294bdf2-910a-4212-9c1f-c03c92a2c9f9.png?v=1785551787"},{"product_id":"gardenia-augusta-florida","title":"Gardenia augusta Florida (Gardenia jasminoides)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlorida is the middle sized gardenia in this range, an upright rounded shrub carrying glossy dark evergreen leaves densely enough to clip into a line. The flowers are the reason to grow it: double white blooms with a heavy scent, opening through the warm months and ageing to cream. Its frame suits work the smaller and larger forms cannot do, which is a low clipped hedge along a path or a matched pair of pots either side of a doorway where the perfume is caught on the way past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003ePosition, pH and the hedge that yellows nearest the path\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart shade is the position it wants, with shelter from hot afternoon sun, which scorches leaves and drops buds. Warm temperate and subtropical gardens suit it; in cold districts it stalls over winter and starts late. Give it acidic, free draining soil built up with compost, keep the root zone mulched, and space plants roughly 50 to 60cm apart for a low hedge. Water steadily rather than in bursts, because soil that dries out while buds are swelling drops them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe failure mode is chlorosis on alkaline ground, and Florida meets it more often than its relatives because of where it gets planted. A hedge running beside a concrete path or against house footings sits in ground that lime has leached into for years, and builders fill under a new bed is usually worse again. The tell is yellow leaves with green veins, worst on the section nearest the concrete while plants further along stay dark. Test the pH before blaming your watering, then correct with an acidic fertiliser, chelated iron, magnesium as Epsom salts, and elemental sulphur worked in over a season or two.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eFlorida against Radicans and Magnifica\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe three augusta forms sit side by side and are not interchangeable. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gardenia-augusta-radicans\"\u003eRadicans\u003c\/a\u003e is low and spreading with small leaves and small flowers, so it edges a border or spills from a pot, and any hedging it does is an ankle high edge rather than a clipped face. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gardenia-augusta-magnifica\"\u003eMagnifica\u003c\/a\u003e is coarser in leaf with much larger blooms on a bigger frame, better as a single border shrub than a clipped run. Florida sits between them, and it is the one to pick when you want a defined low hedge, a repeated planting along a path, or an evenly matched row of pots. Randia fitzalanii, the native gardenia listed in the same hub, is a tree rather than a shrub and a different proposition altogether. Compare the group in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gardenia\"\u003egardenias\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eTrimming a low gardenia hedge\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrune straight after the main flush finishes, cutting back to a leaf pair to build density. A hedge can be tipped lightly two or three times over the warm season, but stop by late summer or you will remove the wood that carries next season's buds. Feed in early spring with a fertiliser formulated for acid loving plants, repeat in midsummer, and add iron and magnesium where the ground tends alkaline. In pots, refresh the top of the mix each spring and liquid feed fortnightly while the plant is in flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 8 sizes, from 80mm up to 400mm, priced from $16.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"80mm","offer_id":64311449682289,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311449747825,"sku":null,"price":99.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311449780593,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311449813361,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311449846129,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311449878897,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311449911665,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311449944433,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-florida-gardenia-gardenia-augusta-florida-20260609_e89cafd8-f730-4f3c-9d76-0d5931339dfc.png?v=1785551862"},{"product_id":"viola-hederacea","title":"Native Violet - Viola hederacea","description":"\u003cp\u003eNative violet makes a soft low mat of kidney shaped leaves, travelling on runners that root as they go, so one plant becomes a colony rather than a clump. Small purple and white flowers are held above the foliage on thin wiry stems for most of the year, and they are edible, which is why the plant turns up beside kitchen doors and on plated desserts. Its usual job is covering shaded damp ground: under established trees, along the southern side of a house, and between pavers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDamp shade is the whole trick\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is native to the cooler wetter parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania, and it wants those conditions repeated. Give it shade to part shade, soil kept organic and moist with compost and mulch, and shelter from hot afternoon exposure. It takes light foot traffic across a path edge, spills nicely over a low retaining wall or the rim of a wide pot, and copes with the poor light down the side passage of a suburban block. Plant four to six to the square metre for a mat that closes in a season. The failure mode is open hot dry sun. In a full sun bed with no irrigation the leaves brown at the margins, the mat thins out to bare runners and flowering stops, and no amount of feeding brings it back while the position stays the same. The other thing to be honest about is the travelling. In a tidy collectors bed it becomes a weeding job, moving into lawn edges and up between stones, so put it where you actually want it to run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNative violet or a jasmine carpet\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor shaded damp ground it covers quickly and reads far softer than the woody groundcovers here, and it keeps flowering through spring, summer and autumn rather than giving one flush and stopping. Where the ground is dry, root filled and half sunny, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-asiaticum\"\u003eAsian star jasmine\u003c\/a\u003e is the tougher pick, holds a defined edge that violet cannot, and takes foot traffic better. Where the job is a fence, a pergola or a screen rather than the shaded ground beneath one, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-jasminoides\"\u003estar jasmine\u003c\/a\u003e trained on wire is the plant to take, since violet has no means of climbing at all. Pick native violet when the site is shaded, stays damp, and you want flowers at ground level rather than a hard wearing surface that stays exactly where you put it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKeeping the mat fresh\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no real pruning to do. Run a mower over the mat on its highest setting, or shear it, in late winter to clear tired old leaf and let new growth come through cleanly. Cut the runners back at any time of year where they are heading into lawn or a bed you want kept clear, and lift rooted pieces to patch thin spots rather than buying more plants. Feed lightly in spring with a slow release fertiliser or a top dress of compost, since heavy feeding gives you leaf and fewer flowers. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flowering\"\u003eflowering\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 11 sizes, from 75mm up to 4 Pack, priced from $16.95 to $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311451550065,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"125mm Squat","offer_id":64311451582833,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311451615601,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75mm","offer_id":64311451648369,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100mm","offer_id":64311451681137,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311451713905,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Pack","offer_id":64311451746673,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"120mm","offer_id":64311451779441,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm Tiles","offer_id":64311451812209,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311451844977,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm Squat","offer_id":64311451877745,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd17-227-native-violet-viola-hederacea_6d54dcc0-7930-4940-b4e4-cf9963d27169.png?v=1785551868"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-hb1-meema-pbr","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia 'HB1' Meema PBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot every native climber wants to climb. Meema is a ground covering form of Hardenbergia violacea, selected to run flat and wide instead of twining up a fence, and it is used as a spreading mat over embankments, as spill from raised beds and planters, and as a living mulch under taller natives. The leaves are narrow, dark and leathery, and the plant holds them year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts moment is the tail of winter into spring, when sprays of small purple pea flowers cover the foliage and bees work them steadily. Flowering is much better in full sun. In shade you get leaves and not much else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it drainage above all. Hardenbergias resent heavy, wet, poorly drained ground and are short lived in it. After flowering, shear the whole plant lightly to keep it dense and to stop the odd stem reaching for anything vertical nearby. Low phosphorus native fertiliser only, and once the roots are down it should not need summer watering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 180mm, priced from $16.95 to $23.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311455318385,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311455351153,"sku":null,"price":23.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/VfO1MlBfiw2yBPgFUkNu3_WSfdJVrr.jpg?v=1787629719"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-white-out","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia White Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a contradiction on this label worth clearing up: the common name says purple coral pea, and the flowers are white. White Out is a white flowering selection of Hardenbergia violacea, a twining native climber with leathery dark green leaves and sprays of small pea flowers through late winter into early spring, when very little else is doing anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a light framed climber rather than a heavy one, which suits it to a wire fence, a mailbox pillar, a trellis panel or a low wall it can spill over. Given nothing to twine on, it scrambles along the ground instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune it straight after flowering. Left alone for a couple of seasons it becomes a tangled mass of dead stems with all the growth up top. It prefers free draining soil and a low phosphorus native feed, and can be short lived where drainage is poor. The Western Australian species, Hardenbergia comptoniana, has three leaflets and is a different plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311465181553,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/QvFmCqHb__rzRykpgs7tN_iDq1KXLP.jpg?v=1787629720"},{"product_id":"pandorea-jasminoides-alba","title":"Bower Vine - Pandorea jasminoides Alba","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlba is the white flowered bower vine, a fast evergreen twiner with glossy divided leaves and flared trumpet flowers carried in loose clusters through the warm months. It lacks the deep pink throat of the common form, which is why it turns up in pale planting schemes and against red brick where pink jars. Because the trumpets face outward and down, the vine is at its most useful overhead, on a pergola, an arch or a carport frame where you stand underneath and look up into the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWarmth, wire and the frost question\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a twiner. It has no adhesive pads and no aerial roots, so it cannot climb bare render or brickwork, and it will simply pile up at the base if you give it nothing to wind around. That is a point in its favour, because self clinging climbers pull mortar and lift paint. Run stainless wire, weldmesh or lattice held off the wall on spacers, and tie the leading stems in while they are still soft and green. Soil should be free draining and enriched with compost, watered through the first summer, and the position anywhere from part shade to full sun with shelter from hot dry wind. Keep it clear of small shrubs, which it will smother rather than climb. The failure mode is cold. Young plants are cut hard by frost, and in Canberra, Ballarat, Orange or an inland frost hollow an unprotected first winter can kill one outright. In those districts grow it against a warm north facing wall, or keep it potted under eaves until the stems have thickened and hardened off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlba against Bower of Beauty\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe straight choice is between this and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pandorea-jasminoides-bower-of-beauty\"\u003eBower of Beauty\u003c\/a\u003e, the pink selection with a rose to crimson marked throat. Habit, vigour and culture are near enough identical, so the decision is colour and setting. Alba reads clean and quiet against warm brick, terracotta and rendered walls, and it holds up at dusk in a courtyard when pink has gone grey. Bower of Beauty carries further across a garden and reads better against dark timber or green hedging. If it is scent you are after rather than flower size, neither pandorea competes with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-jasminoides\"\u003estar jasmine\u003c\/a\u003e, which flowers over a much shorter window but perfumes a whole courtyard while it does. Take Alba where the flowers will be seen close up and from underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCutting Alba back and feeding for flowers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune in early spring before growth moves, cutting the whole plant back to shape and taking two or three of the oldest stems right down low to force new shoots from the base. Tidy again lightly after the main flowering flush if it is spilling off its support, and untangle any stems that have wound over each other. Feed at pruning with a complete slow release fertiliser and keep nitrogen modest, since a heavily fed plant makes leaf at the expense of trumpets. Water deeply through the flowering months and mulch to keep the roots cool. See what else suits a fence line in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 300mm, priced from $16.95 to $119.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311470424433,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311470457201,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311470489969,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-alba-bower-vine-pandorea-jasminoides-alba-20260611_53997ffa-a356-4b0e-9d32-9b5f7a3a35f5.png?v=1785551935"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-asiaticum","title":"Asian Star Jasmine - Trachelospermum asiaticum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsian star jasmine spreads as a low dense mat rather than reaching upward like a true vine, throwing out wiry runners that root where they touch down and knit into an even carpet. The leaf is the quickest way to tell it apart, being small, dark, leathery and closely spaced along the stem, and the flowers are few, small and cream to buttery yellow. It is bought mostly as groundcover, for the dry root filled ground under established trees and for embankments where mowing is awkward, and it will also sheet a low fence panel or a wall flat once it reaches one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClosing the gaps in an Asian star jasmine planting\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt grows across temperate and subtropical Australia, coastal and inland, and takes frost once the roots are down, though foliage often bronzes over a cold winter and greens again in spring. Soil can be ordinary. It will hold in clay, in builders fill and in the root mat under a gum, provided water moves through rather than sitting. Position it anywhere from part shade to full sun. Under trees it stays greener and flatter, in open sun it runs harder and colours more. For groundcover plant three to five to the square metre and stagger the rows so the runners meet across the gaps rather than lining up. Salt wind on a coastal block does not trouble it, and it is one of the few evergreen covers that will hold a steep batter without permanent irrigation. The failure here is walking away after planting. Cover takes a full growing season, and in that season every weed seed in the bed germinates in the open ground between plants. Mulch, hand weed and keep the water up until the mat closes over. Once it has closed, very little gets through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAsiaticum, jasminoides or native violet\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you want perfume, buy \u003ca href=\"\/products\/trachelospermum-jasminoides\"\u003eTrachelospermum jasminoides\u003c\/a\u003e instead. Its flowers are larger, white, far more numerous and carry a scent across a courtyard, and it climbs properly on wire. Asiaticum is the flatter, tighter, less showy one, and that is exactly why it works underfoot, along edges, and pressed flat against a low fence or retaining wall. It will still climb, just slowly and without ever attaching itself, so on a paling fence or a wire panel it takes longer to cover than jasminoides and finishes tighter and denser against the surface, which is what you want where a loose twining screen would look untidy. In genuinely shaded damp ground, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viola-hederacea\"\u003enative violet\u003c\/a\u003e covers faster and looks softer, but it will not take the dry root competition or the open sun that asiaticum shrugs off. Choose asiaticum for hard, dry, half sunny ground you have stopped wanting to mow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShearing the mat and feeding it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShear the whole planting over in late spring once flowering finishes, taking the tips back to keep the surface even and to stop runners climbing anything nearby. A second light trim in autumn tidies edges along paths and driveways. Where the mat has lifted and gone spongy after a few years, cut it harder and it regrows flat from the base. The sap is milky and irritates some skin, so wear gloves and long sleeves when you cut it. Feed with a slow release fertiliser in early spring as growth starts, and again after the summer shear on a young planting still filling in. Established mats rarely need more than that. Browse the rest of the range in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/climbers\"\u003eclimbers\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 125mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"125mm","offer_id":64311472128369,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311472161137,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311472193905,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311472226673,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-asiatic-star-jasmine-trachelospermum-asiaticum_f593815d-8aef-4db4-8285-b3ce24a95f83.png?v=1785551943"},{"product_id":"hedera-helix-ivy","title":"English Ivy - Hedera helix Ivy","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnow what you are planting. English ivy is a self clinging evergreen climber that will cover a fence, a bank or a shaded wall faster than almost anything else available, and it is also a listed environmental weed across large parts of southern and eastern Australia, spread by birds eating the berries produced by mature growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsed with that in mind it still has a place: as contained groundcover in the deep dry shade under established trees, as an indoor or verandah pot plant where the stems can trail, and as the traditional cover for wire topiary frames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever let it climb into a tree canopy or cross a boundary into bushland, and never dump clippings in a green waste heap at the back of a block.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAerial roots damage mortar, render and paintwork, so keep it off house walls.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sap and leaves cause contact dermatitis in some people, so wear gloves when cutting it back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupplied in one small pot size, which suits pots and frames more than large scale cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311476584817,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/ZMu6D_OpwZ99hz5VIjuru_bBHLXyYc.jpg?v=1787629791"},{"product_id":"gardenia-augusta-radicans","title":"Gardenia augusta Radicans (Gardenia jasminoides)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRadicans is the ground hugging form, a low spreading plant with fine small leaves that runs sideways rather than up and stays well below knee height. What sets it apart is scent at ground level: small double white flowers, as heavily perfumed as any gardenia, carried on a plant you look down on rather than into. It is used as a fragrant edge along a path, as mass planting beneath a window, and spilling over the rim of a wide pot or the face of a low retaining wall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eCold wet winter soil under a ground hugging gardenia\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart shade suits it, with morning sun and shelter from hot afternoon glare, and it wants the same acidic, compost rich, free draining ground the taller gardenias need. Space plants around 40 to 50cm apart for mass planting so they knit into continuous cover, and mulch between them until they do. Keep water even through summer, since a shallow rooted spreader dries out faster than an upright shrub in the same bed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLate winter yellowing is the complaint that comes back every year, and Radicans gets it worse than its upright relatives for a structural reason. Its roots sit in the top few centimetres of soil, exactly the layer that stays coldest and wettest through winter, and iron uptake all but stops in cold wet ground even where the pH is right. On alkaline soil the two problems compound and the whole planting goes pale at once. Fix drainage before anything else, ease off watering over winter, and feed with chelated iron and an acidic fertiliser once the soil warms in spring rather than in the middle of the yellow spell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eRadicans or Florida: two different jobs\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuyers weighing Radicans against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gardenia-augusta-florida\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/a\u003e are choosing between two different jobs. Florida builds a rounded shrub you can clip into a low hedge with a face; Radicans hedges only in the sense that a mass planting knits into a continuous ankle high edge, and pushing it upright leaves a bare, patchy mat. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/gardenia-augusta-magnifica\"\u003eMagnifica\u003c\/a\u003e is larger again in leaf and flower and belongs in a deep border. Pick Radicans for the front edge of a bed, for underplanting beneath taller shrubs, for a wide shallow pot, or anywhere a taller gardenia would block a view you want kept open. Grandiflora Star, the single flowered form in this hub, stands upright again and belongs in a pot or a bed corner. The rest of the group is in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gardenia\"\u003egardenias\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eShearing a gardenia mat and feeding it\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrim after the main flowering flush with shears, taking the tips back lightly to thicken the mat and cutting out any long shoots that lift above the rest. Do not cut into old bare wood at the centre, which reshoots slowly and leaves a hole in the meantime. Feed in early spring with an acid loving plant food spread across the whole planting rather than dropped at individual stems, since the roots run well beyond each crown, and follow with a lighter second feed in midsummer. Watch older leaves for scale and the sooty mould that trails it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 140mm up to 300mm, priced from $16.95 to $88.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311478944113,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311478976881,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311479009649,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311479042417,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-radicans-gardenia-gardenia-augusta-radicans-20260611_787182b2-5891-400d-8633-b4d16a22caa0.png?v=1785551967"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-violacea-white-out","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia violacea White Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite Out is the white flowered form of the purple coral pea, a twining evergreen native climber with wiry stems and leathery lance shaped leaves. Through late winter and into spring it carries the same dense sprays of pea flowers as the purple Happy Wanderer everyone knows, in clean white, which reads very differently against dark foliage or a rendered wall. Growth is fast and the plant is long lived once its roots are down. It goes on wire fences, mesh panels, lattice and open banks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGive it something to climb, then stop digging around it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun brings the heaviest flowering, though it will grow and flower reasonably in part shade. It wants free draining soil and is at home on the sandy, low fertility ground of its natural range across southern and eastern Australia, taking frost, dry summers and coastal exposure in its stride. On wire, mesh or lattice it will cover a fence in a couple of seasons; run flat over a bank with nothing to grip, it behaves as a sprawling groundcover instead. Two things end it early. The first is heavy soil that stays wet in winter, which rots the roots. The second is disturbance: it resents having its root zone dug, forked or replanted around, and gardens lose established plants to a weekend of bed renovation more often than to any disease. Plant it into a free draining position, mulch lightly, keep the trowel away afterwards and leave it alone. Growth is fast, so direct it in the first year, spreading stems along the wires rather than letting them pile into one corner. In a pot it will run up an obelisk, though flowering is heavier in the ground where the roots can get down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClimber, or something that stays on the ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the job is a bank, compare it with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/grevillea-forest-rambler\"\u003eForest Rambler\u003c\/a\u003e. The grevillea is a shrubby spreader that holds ground and stays where it is put, flowering through the cooler months for honeyeaters. White Out is a twiner: give it wire and it goes up and across quickly, which suits a fence, a carport screen or a pergola better than a low border. The two overlap on a sloping bank, where the grevillea is the steadier long term cover while the hardenbergia gives a heavier, shorter display and then settles back to green foliage. Colour decides the rest: white sits quietly against dark hedges, brick and render where the purple can look busy, and it lifts a shaded corner the purple would swallow. Other options sit in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/climbers\"\u003eclimbers range\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCutting back the moment flowering finishes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune straight after the flowers fade, shortening the spent growth to keep the plant dense and to stop the base going bare while the top gets heavy. Cuts made into leafless old wood later in the year frequently fail to reshoot, so do the work while there is leaf below every cut. On a fence, tie the main stems in early rather than untangling them later. Feeding is barely needed, since this is a legume that fixes its own nitrogen and rich feeding gives soft growth and fewer flowers. Use a low phosphorus native fertiliser sparingly in spring, or none at all. Cut back stems that reach gutters or roof sheeting before they thicken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 300mm, priced from $17.95 to $119.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311480680817,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311480713585,"sku":null,"price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311480746353,"sku":null,"price":119.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-white-out-hardenbergia-hardenbergia-violacea-white-out-20260611_64cd1f16-c394-4a5b-92ea-bba5a5dae6f7.png?v=1785551976"},{"product_id":"dipladenia-my-fair-lady","title":"Dipladenia My Fair Lady (Mandevilla)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a hot courtyard wall, a balcony rail or a pot beside a north facing door, dipladenia does what few flowering climbers manage: it flowers hard in full sun and reflected heat without demanding much root room. My Fair Lady is one of the named selections in that group, twining rather than clinging, with small glossy leaves and trumpet flowers carried in flushes right through the warm months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDipladenia and Mandevilla are sold as the same thing and the labels move around freely. In practice the dipladenia types are the bushier, smaller leaved, more manageable ones for containers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrost is the limit. In cold districts keep it in a pot that can be shifted under cover. Cut it back in early spring to force fresh flowering wood, feed through summer, and check leaf undersides for mealybug and mite if it lives indoors. The milky sap irritates skin, so wear gloves when pruning. The 14cm trellis plants come already trained for a patio; 140mm stock is the better buy if it is going into a bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 14cm w\/Trellis, priced from $16.95 to $24.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"14cm w\/Trellis","offer_id":64311489823089,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311489855857,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/qMqiCTZ3tLFY4_jf3dg0N_1LsyQdgw.jpg?v=1787629932"},{"product_id":"wisteria-sinensis-alba-white-chinese-wisteria","title":"White Chinese Wisteria - Wisteria sinensis Alba","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuild the structure before you plant this. White Chinese wisteria matures into a heavy woody rope that will bend lattice, lift roof tiles and crush a downpipe, so give it welded pipe, steel or solid hardwood and nothing lighter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowering habit is why people persist. Racemes of white pea flowers hang on bare grey stems in spring, scented, ahead of the leaves, then the vine leafs up for dense summer shade over a pergola and drops the lot for winter sun underneath. Chinese wisteria twines anticlockwise and flowers before the foliage; the Japanese species twines the other way and opens longer racemes with the leaves, which is the quickest way to tell what you actually have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune twice a year. Shorten the long summer whips back to a few buds in late summer, then tidy those spurs while the plant is bare. Any runner left lying on soil will layer and sucker, so keep it off garden beds and away from neighbouring fencelines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 180mm up to 400mm, priced from $37.95 to $269.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311495131505,"sku":null,"price":55.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311495164273,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311495197041,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311495229809,"sku":null,"price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/1CpoLX4lt-41xl71-MS8z_6zNv5YcC.jpg?v=1787629997"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-pink-spray-pbr","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia Pink Spray PBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive this one wires, a trellis or a rough rock wall and let it do the work. Hardenbergia violacea is normally seen in purple as Happy Wanderer, so a pink flowered selection is a genuinely different look: long sprays of small pea flowers held against narrow, leathery, dark green leaves that stay on all year. Flowering runs through the late winter and early spring gap when very little else is going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt twines rather than clings, so it needs something to wrap around. Planted with nothing to climb, it will run as a loose, tumbling groundcover over a bank instead, which also works well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune straight after flowering, hard enough to matter. Skip a year or two and you get a woody tangle with all the growth on the outside. Being a legume it fixes its own nitrogen and does not want rich feeding, and it wants free draining soil. Treat it as a fast, generous plant rather than a lifetime one. Supplied in 5lt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311497818481,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/KW0tWAOlqSlS1k5rqVIl_NX6lrO2K.jpg?v=1787630065"},{"product_id":"pandorea-jasminoides-pink-magic","title":"Bower Vine - Pandorea jasminoides Pink Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003ePink Magic is a twining evergreen climber that covers ground vertically and quickly. The flowers are the draw: large open trumpets in soft pink with a deep rose throat, carried in clusters against glossy dark pinnate leaves that stay clean through the year rather than going tatty by autumn. It is the standard answer in warmer parts of Australia when a paling fence, a carport wall or a pergola needs to disappear, without the weight, the timber damage and the eventual demolition work that comes with a mature wisteria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIt twines, so give it something to hold\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarmth is what it wants. Pandorea jasminoides comes from the east coast subtropics and performs best from Sydney and Perth northwards, and in sheltered coastal gardens further south; young plants are the frost sensitive part of the story, so in cold districts protect the first winter or two. Give it moderate water, free draining soil with compost worked through, and a position where the roots sit cool and shaded while the top of the plant gets sun, because flowering happens where the light is. Part shade to full sun both work, and growth is fast in warm weather. The failure mode is support. This is a twiner, not a clinger: it has no aerial roots and no adhesive pads, so a plant set against rendered brick, a flat paling fence or a plain wall will simply pile up at the base and never climb. Put wire, mesh, trellis or heavy gauge cable up first, spaced off the surface, and tie the leaders on until they find it themselves. Retrofitting support into an established tangle is a bad afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eVine or shrub for the same boundary\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing else in this batch climbs, so the comparison worth making is against the shrubs people consider for the same job. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/bottlebrush-callistemon-mauve-mist\"\u003eCallistemon Mauve Mist\u003c\/a\u003e will screen the same fence line and brings birds with it, but it needs a garden bed with real width and takes several seasons to close the gaps. Pink Magic covers a boundary in a fraction of the ground space, which is the difference that matters in a side passage or a narrow courtyard. Pick the bottlebrush if you want a freestanding screen that stands on its own and never needs a frame; pick the vine if you already have a structure and no room to plant in front of it. More in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/climbers\"\u003eclimbers range\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKeeping a fast climber inside its frame\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrune after the main flush of flowers, thinning the oldest and woodiest stems out from the base rather than shearing the surface, which only produces a dense outer shell and a hollow, leafless middle. A hard cut back is tolerated in spring once the weather has warmed. Feed in early spring with a complete fertiliser or well rotted manure at the base, then mulch to keep the root zone cool, and repeat lightly after flowering on sandy soils. Check the stems for scale and the sooty mould that follows it, particularly in still, shaded corners and behind growth held tight against a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311501619569,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311501652337,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-pink-magic-bower-vine-pandorea-jasminoides-pink-magic-20260611_dabd3263-780f-4aac-8806-9e5767fa3106.png?v=1785552102"},{"product_id":"pandorea-ruby-belle","title":"Bower Vine - Pandorea Ruby Belle","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiven wires, a lattice or a solid pergola beam to wrap around, this bower vine climbs by twining rather than clinging, so it always needs something to hold. Ruby Belle is a deeply coloured selection of Pandorea jasminoides, with trumpet flowers in rich pink-red and a darker throat, carried in clusters from spring into the warmer months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoliage is glossy, divided into neat leaflets and held year round, which matters on a fence you actually want screened in winter. It is a moderate, manageable climber rather than a thug, and it will not lift gutters or tiles the way some vines do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo things to watch. The base tends to go bare and woody as the top thickens, so prune after the main flowering to force new shoots low down. Young plants are soft and easily knocked about by frost, so hold them in the pot through the first cold season in inland or highland gardens. Supplied in 5lt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311502733681,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/LXRq9pli_0RGUgBM-10tB_ple8wNmi.jpg?v=1787630136"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-violacea","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia violacea","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive it a wire, a mesh panel or an old paling fence to twine through and it will do the rest. Left flat on the ground with nothing to climb, it scrambles instead and works as a rough groundcover over batters and rock edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStems are thin and wiry, the leaves dark, leathery and evergreen, so the plant reads as fairly quiet for most of the year. Then late winter arrives and the whole thing sheets over in sprays of small purple pea flowers, each with a paler blotch at the centre of the standard. The vigorous garden form most people know is Happy Wanderer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe usual failure is neglect. Unpruned plants build a mat of dead twiggy growth underneath and end up flowering only on the outer shell, so cut it back straight after flowering, harder than feels comfortable. Being a legume it copes with poor soil, but it will not tolerate sitting wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 200mm, priced from $16.95 to $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311509549425,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311509582193,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/2279-yZUXaAIRg10rvzC_VXb8xz6k.jpg?v=1787630238"},{"product_id":"mandevilla-crimson-fantasy-pbr","title":"Mandevilla Crimson Fantasy PBR (Dipladenia)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf frost reaches your garden, treat this one as a pot plant that can be moved. Mandevilla, still widely sold under the name dipladenia, is a tropical twiner grown for glossy dark leaves and deep red trumpet flowers that keep coming through the warm months. In Brisbane and coastal New South Wales it climbs happily on a trellis or a mailbox; in Melbourne, Canberra or the Adelaide Hills it is far safer in a container against a warm north facing wall, brought under cover when the cold sets in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt flowers on new growth, so a tidy up in late winter or early spring pays for itself. Keep the roots moist but never standing in a saucer of water. Mealybug and scale hide where stems twist together, so check those junctions each time you water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sap is milky and can irritate skin, and it is not something for children or pets to chew. Sold in 140mm, ready to train onto a small frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $17.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/when-to-plant-trees-and-shrubs-australia\"\u003ewhen to plant in Australia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311511843185,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Z5z5CktcHNi9MAYNYeM5m_9lCypbmS.jpg?v=1787630240"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-ft01-pbr-flat-mat-tm","title":"Star Jasmine - Trachelospermum 'FT01' PBR Flat Mat TM","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trade name describes the habit accurately. Flat Mat is a selection of star jasmine bred to run sideways and stay low rather than climb, so it holds a dense, even carpet of small glossy dark green leaves at ankle height instead of hunting for a fence. Through late spring and early summer it carries the same white pinwheel flowers and the same heavy evening perfume as the climbing form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has become a standard lawn alternative on slopes, verges and shaded strips between buildings where mowing is awkward, and it copes with root competition under established trees better than most groundcovers. Plant at proper density, because a sparse planting takes a long time to knit and weeds will win in the meantime. Give it a full season before judging it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo cautions worth knowing: the sap is milky and can irritate skin, and if the plant reaches a wall or post it will start climbing, so run a trimmer around the edges once or twice a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311512564081,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/jomn8IU_lGMyhySHt3DR6_fdDwmeDh.jpg?v=1787630279"},{"product_id":"happy-wanderer-hardenbergia-purple-spray-pbr","title":"Purple Coral Pea - Hardenbergia Purple Spray PBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcross late winter and into early spring, when little else in a native bed is doing much, Purple Spray covers itself in the small violet-purple pea flowers that give Hardenbergia its common name. This is a spreading, low-growing selection rather than a twining climber, with the same leathery dark evergreen leaves on wiry stems, so it works as a groundcover over a bank, spilling from a raised wall, or trailing out of a large pot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a legume and wants neither rich feeding nor high phosphorus fertiliser. Sharp drainage matters far more than watering, and the usual way to lose a hardenbergia is heavy wet soil over summer. Trim lightly straight after flowering to keep the growth dense, because plants left alone go woody and open in the middle within a few years. Full sun gives the heaviest flowering, though it accepts some shade, and frost is handled well across most mainland districts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/australian-native-trees-for-shade\"\u003eAustralian native trees\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311513317745,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Qv4VdwQFyCceey9sgxKxY_cf71hICt.jpg?v=1787630279"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/collections\/plantdrop-pink-magic-bower-vine-pandorea-jasminoides-pink-magic-20260611_dabd3263-780f-4aac-8806-9e5767fa3106.png?v=1787349000","url":"https:\/\/plantdrop.com.au\/collections\/climbers.oembed","provider":"Plant Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}