
Star Jasmine
Trachelospermum jasminoides
From $16.95
Plant collection
This is the whole Plant Drop range in one place: 1753 plant lines live and orderable today, grown by Australian production nurseries and sent straight off the farm rather than off a retail bench. It is built for people planting a garden rather than filling a windowsill. Boundary screens, a hedge down a fenceline, a shade tree for a bare new-build block, mass planting on a slope that washes out every storm.
It is not for everyone. No vegetable seedlings, no punnets of annual colour, no seed, no lawn. Revegetation crews chasing forestry tubestock by the tens of thousands are in the wrong place too, since only thirteen lines in the range start in a 70mm tube. Collectors hunting rare aroids will find the indoor shelf short and deliberately ordinary. Every plant is graded to size by the grower, so you are ordering to a specification.
Start with the job. Privacy and screening, hedging, feature trees and Australian natives are the sensible first click, because almost nobody starts with a botanical name. They start with a problem: the neighbour's second storey, a hot western wall, a nature strip the council will approve.
Then go by plant group, where the range runs deep. Gum trees are the biggest single group at 117 lines, with crepe myrtles, Japanese maples, kangaroo paws, lilly pillies, olives and paperbarks all carrying more than a dozen each. Those pages earn their keep once you know the plant and need to sort cultivars.
Pot sizes confuse people because millimetres describe a diameter and volume climbs with the cube. A 140mm pot holds roughly 1.5 litres. A 300mm holds about 15, and a 400mm around 35. That 400mm is not a big pot plant. It is a young tree that takes two people and a barrow. Here 140mm is the commonest entry size, on 255 lines, and it is what to take for anything going in by the dozen. Around 450 lines start at 45L or larger, which is where advanced trees sit and where you want access, a real hole and a staking plan sorted before the truck turns up.
Small stock catches up faster than people expect. A 140mm shrub planted in autumn with a decent mulch ring will often overtake the 300mm version of itself inside three seasons, because it roots out instead of sulking. Take the large grade when you need the effect now, or when the site is too exposed for small stock to survive its first summer.
Soil, mostly. Dig a neat round hole in the grey cracking clay out through Melbourne's west and you have built a bucket that holds water against the roots all winter. Break the sides, plant high, mound if you have to. On the calcareous sand behind the Perth coast the opposite happens and the water is gone before you finish coiling the hose, so a wetting agent and thick mulch earn their keep, and the lime in that sand yellows anything that wants an acid soil. Brisbane and the wet subtropics punish anything bred for a dry Mediterranean summer, and grey mould gets into dense foliage by February. Frost is the other one. Orange, Armidale and the Southern Highlands drop well below what a subtropical evergreen will wear, and a cold pocket at the bottom of a slope is colder again than the rest of the block.
From here the narrower pages do the work: climbing plants for a fence or pergola, succulents for a dry strip nobody waters, ferns and tree ferns for the shaded southern side of a house.
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