Plants That Like Wet Feet Australia

Now all of us think of Juncusand Ficiniasand Restios as being waterside plants but there are others too - like the beautiful Leptospermum brachyandrumWeeping Tea-tree. Thrives in wet dry clay soil and rocky.

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In native gardens or anywh.

Plants that like wet feet australia. 20 tall x 15 wide. Out of water forms grassy tussocks to 20cm high. Weeping Cherries Weeping upright Silver Birch Pittosporums Mop Tops Gardenias Rhododendrons Proteas Azaleas Standard Ficus Standard Blue Potato Vines BoxOz Lonicera English Box Weeping upright Japanese Maples Citrus Fruit Trees Standard Roses Lavender Silver Bush Powton Sapphire Dragons and Myrtus Luma.

These plants can handle prolonged periods of submersion and grow well in bogs or swamps as a result. Like its close cousin orange butterfly weed swamp milkweed attracts monarchs and other butterflies. Lily of the valley Bugbane Crinum Sweet woodruff Daylily Rose mallow Blue vervain Monkey flower Iris.

If you have an area in your landscape thats occasionally wet but dries reasonably well in a few days you might consider these perennials shrubs and trees. Coppiced willow or other species will give you material for baskets wattle fences bean poles and more. Possumhaw Ilex decidua This deciduous holly produces bright red berries in winter.

Plant in consistently moist soil. Red Maple Acer rubrum Also known as a Swamp maple this tree has brilliant fall foliage. Leafy Vegetables For greens high in nutrients that also thrive in wet soil try Tanier spinach Xanthosoma brasiliense Butterbur Petasites japonicas or.

Up to 8 feet tall. Plants that produce great biomass in wet areas can be chopped and taken to infertile places as mulch. Swamp Milkweed Seeds from 2 Etsy.

Plants at risk of wet feet include. Cardinal flower this one does need to dry out within a few days though. There are even several ornamental plants that grow well in wet areas.

The stems up to 15mm dia. Astilbe cardinal flower sedge rose mallow summersweet hibiscus European cranberrybush viburnum leucothoe fothergilla inkberry sweetspire sweet and swamp azaleas white spruce and black gum. A permit may be required.

Tokyo ferns grow 18-36 inches 46-91 cm tall and work well as filler plants amongst taller perennials and shorter ground cover. Gently weeping dense foliage useful for screening feature planting. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops.

Era Nurseries range of wet area grasses shrubs and trees. It has weeping silver foliage grow to around three or four metres often with multiple trunks. Isolepis inundata Swamp Clubrush.

Water tolerant perennials and bulbs include. Steeper swales lined with ground-cover grasses or shrubs and trees that tolerate wet conditions Constructed creek beds with stones of a size to resist excessive current force. Gently weeping native hedge or screen tree spreading to 5m tall and wide with vibrant red bottle-brush flowers.

And up to 40cm long of this stringy grass like plant form long open tangles in water with new stems branching from the seed heads clumps of 2 to 6mm long flower spikes. Wood ferns grow up to 35 feet in height with a classic vase shape and semi-evergreen fronds. Zones 5 9.

Callistemon Dawson River Weeper. With a name like swamp milkweed you know this plant loves wet soil but itll also grow in drier sites. It can be either a small tree or large shrub.

Cinnamon fern produces 4-foot 12 m long bluegreen fronds interspersed with cinnamon fronds.

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