Plants for sandy conditions

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Plants for sandy conditions:

Trees:

  • Acacia*
  • Ekebergia* (Cape Ash)
  • Harpephyllum*
  • Olea* (Wild Olive)
  • Sideroxylum* (Milkwood)

Shrubs:

  • Acalypha
  • Barleria* (Bush Violet)

  • Brachyleana* (Coastal silky oak)
  • Carissa* (Natal Plum)
  • Callistemon (Bottlebrush)
  • Chondropetalum* (Thatching Reed)
  • Cordyline
  • Coprosma (Mirror Bush)
  • Chrysanthemoides* (Bush tick berry)
  • Eriocephalus* (Wild Rosemary)
  • Elegia* (Restio)
  • Euryops*
  • Erica*
  • Escallonia
  • Furcreae
  • Felicia*
  • Geranium and Pelargonium*
  • Hibiscus
  • Lavander
  • Lantana
  • Leonotis* (Wild Dagga)
  • Leucodendron* (Cone flower)
  • Leucospermum* (Pincusion)
  • Metalasia*
  • Melaleuca (Tea bush)
  • Nerium (Oleander)
  • Phormium (Flax)
  • Pyracantha (Fire thorn)
  • Plumeria (Frangipani)
  • Protea*
  • Plumbago*
  • Polygala* (Bloukappie)
  • Raphiolepis (Indian hawthorn)
  • Rosmarinus
  • Strelitzia* (Crane Flower and Wild banana)
  • Schefflera
  • Tecomaria* (Cape Honeysuckle)
  • Yucca

Groundcovers:

  • Arctotis* (Gousblom)
  • Armeria (Thrift)
  • Dymondia* (Silver carpet)
  • Gazania*
  • Helichrysum*
  • Oxalis*
  • Vygies*
  • Verbena

Climbers:

  • Bougainvillea
  • Hedera
  • Petrea

Palms:

  • Phoenix
  • Washingtonia

Flowering perennials:

  • Agapanthus* (Lily of the Nile)
  • Catharanthus (Vinca)
  • Dietes* (Wild Iris)
  • Diascia* (Twinspur)
  • Gaura (Butterfly Bush)
  • Hemerocallis (Day Lily)
  • Kniphofia* (Red Hot Poker)
  • Limonium (Statice)
  • Nemesia*
  • Osteospermum* (African Daisy)
  • Salvia
  • Tulbachia* (Wild garlic)

Succulents:

  • Aeonium
  • Aloe
  • Bulbine
  • Bulbinella
  • Cotyledon
  • Crassula
  • Echeveria
  • Kalanchoe
  • Portulacaria
  • Sedum

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