You can support Australian-grown products in your own garden with pretty flowers

Have you ever wondered where new plant varieties come from? More often than not, new plant releases that you find at a nursery or garden centre have been imported from overseas. Often they are from countries that have completely different climatic conditions to what we experience here in Australia.

The Paradise brand is renowned for developing and promoting outstanding varieties that are bred and grown in Australia to suit our unique and often challenging conditions. From the thousands of hand pollinations that occur every year at Paradise Plants’ trial gardens, only the very best plants are selected and offered for sale.

Located on the beautiful Central Coast of NSW, Paradise Plants’ trial gardens offer the perfect environment for breeding and testing plant varieties. Heat tolerance, survival under humid conditions, drought tolerance, disease resistance and beautiful garden performance are the cornerstones of the company’s selection process.

While all of the company’s flowers are beautiful, the team has a few favourites. Some of these include:

• Lavender Sensation: From Queensland to Tasmania and across to Perth, this is one of the most reliable ranges of lavender in the market today.

• Oriental Hawthorns: Love the spring flowers of Indian hawthorn but hate the constant leaf spot and leaf drop? Paradise has the answer. Paradise Oriental Pearl is one of the top-selling in the Australian market. Beautiful white flowers in spring, clean foliage, compact rounded habit and low maintenance make this shrub the easy choice for low borders. The recently released Paradise Oriental Pink ( ‘Rapopink’ PBR) is the perfect