Coastal Sun Greenhouse and Gifts in Roberts Creek is an exquisite gardening and gift store, featuring beautiful perennial bedding plants and shrubs arranged aesthetically outside and inside their log mall building.

The nursery provides gardeners with helpful pamphlets such as Drought Tolerant Plants and How to Maximize Soil Potential.

Hovea acutifolia (Purple Pea Bush)

This open shrub to 1-4 meters can be found along rainforest margins or damp, protected sites, with narrow dark green leaves covered in fine rust-coloured hairs and bearing masses of mauve-purple pea flowers during Winter-Spring. It provides shelter and food for small native birds as its dense foliage shelters them before followed by edible green pods which ‘pop’ audibly when ready to release seeds; furthermore it is both drought tolerant and moderately frost resistant.

Coastline plants like banksias, melaleucas, eucalypts and sheoaks provide food, nesting habitat and shelter to Sunshine Coast fauna. Furthermore, it serves as a playground for wildflower enthusiasts with self-guided walks available during the annual Wildflowers of the Sunshine Coast festival held between late winter and spring.

Noosa Pots + Plants provides a selection of indoor plants designed to make your home Instagram-ready, as well as gardening supplies like fertiliser and growth concentrate to help ensure its success.

Melicope elleryana (Pink Euodia)

Fast growing Australian native rainforest tree that reaches 10 metres. Very hardy & frost tender but also an attractive feature tree in coastal sea-spray areas, where its unique flowers attract lorikeets. Also considered food source by Glossy Black Cockatoos!

The Sunshine Coast Council Open Space Landscape Infrastructure Manual – Part B – Street Tree Strategies provides more detailed guidance for selecting species for specific streets and localities throughout the region, including signature and natural character palettes. The manual also recommends low fruiting/nectar producing species as a potential choice around permanent flying fox roosts; locally propagated Eucalyptus bancroftii tree seed is encouraged as this helps produce trees with adequate root ball volume/height which yield better-formed trees than non-locally obtained stock.

Hibiscus tileaceus (Cotton Tree)

Hibiscus tileaceus is a medium to large shade or ornamental tree with decorative heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers, native to tropical Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Florida. This species’ wide distribution along coastlines enables it to thrive throughout tropical Africa, Asia, Australia New Zealand and Florida and it serves various traditional uses including roots being eaten for sustenance; using leaves as food wrapper during cooking; bast fibres used for ropes nets basketware fishing line as well as tapa cloth used as part of Polynesian costume costume production.

This fast-growing plant is frequently grown in containers for its colourful foliage. Propagated via seed or cuttings, it grows quickly under ideal conditions despite drought, frost, coastal salt and moderate shade conditions – making it an excellent coastal plant in gardens due to its vibrant colours and dense foliage; stabilising rocky coasts while helping restore mangrove forests which provide carbon storage solutions and marine animal habitat.

Syzygium luehmannii Riberry -Tree

This natural plant, also referred to as small-leaf Lilly Pilly, Cherry Satinash and Clove Lilly Pilli, produces tiny exotic fruits that have an intense clove aroma. Pruning works well and its dense foliage makes this variety suitable for decorative hedges.

Riberries, natives to Australia’s coastal rainforests, contain high concentrations of antioxidants that may lower risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Their pear-shaped fruit tastes sweet with spicy notes; its clove-like notes create an unforgettable taste experience; plus three times as much folate content than blueberries!

Riberry thrives in well-draining soil. A slow-growing plant, it doesn’t require fertilizer addition. Water your Riberry regularly while allowing its roots to dry out between watering sessions – use our water calculator or download Greg for advanced recommendations! Similarly, light pruning should be performed regularly to promote dense foliage or harvest the berries as desired; late winter or early spring are the ideal times for this.