Flora for Fauna Information Sheets:
If your soil is sandy...

Information courtesy of:	Kuranga Native Nursery,
	393 Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood

Some plants are particularly suited to growing in sandy soils. Some plants may tolerate dry conditions, whilst other may need some watering over summer. The addition of well-rotted compost or well-aged animal manure improves the moisture-holding qualities of the sand. This will encourage worms and continue to break-down and improve the soil, and also help prevent the soil from drying out. Only aged manures should be used. Using organic mulches on the surface, or soil wetter, will help retain moisture as the surface of sandy soils tends to dry out and repel water rather than soaking it in. The following Flora for Fauna plants will grow especially well in sandy soils and coastal environments. You should also ask your local Flora for Fauna Nursery for advice.

Silver Wattle Flinders Range Wattle Salty She-Oak Drooping She- Oak Cats Paw Kangaroo Paw Red & Green Kangaroo Paw Kangaroo Paw Native Dutchman's Pipe Midyim, Midgers Berry Wallum Banksia Banksia Burgundy or Heath Banksia Heath Banksia Coast Banksia Prostrate Coast Banksia Silver Banksia Orange Banksia, Acorn Banksia Creeping Banksia Swamp Banksia Saw Leaf Banksia Sand Bottlebrush Sweet Apple Berry Red Biillardiera Common Appleberry Soft water fern Sunset Serenade Native Daisy Swan River Pea Sweet Bursaria, Prickin Box Blackthorn Callistemon 'Captain Cook' Callistemon citrinus 'Angela' Callistemon citrinus 'Endevour' Callistemon citrinus 'White Ice' Callistemon 'Dawson River Weeper' Callistemon 'Demesne Prestige Pink' Callistemon 'Kings Park Special' Callistemon 'Lavender Showers' Callistemon 'Tinaroo Dazzler' Callistemon 'Taree Pink' Callistemon speciosus Callistemon 'Eureka'- violet rose form Southern Cypress-pine One-sided Bottlebrush Canirium australisicum Darwin Palm Coastal She-oak Geraldton Wax Heart-leaved Flame Pea Golden Buttons Old man's beard Small-leaf clematis Pink Thryptomene Thryptomene Rock thryptomene Golden Feather Flower Ellendale Grevillea spp. Byfield Grevillea Spider Flower Yanchep Bell Red Pokers Pin-cushion Hakea Pin-cushion Hakea Nettle bush Native wisteria Native Lilac, Wild Sarsapirllia Happy Wanderer Native Lilac Snake Bush Snake Vine Star Guinea Flower Common Waxflower, Native Hoya White Myrtle Knobby Club-Rush Black coral Pea Running Postman Scarlet kunzea Muntries or Muntenberry Leptospermum 'Horizontalis' Silky Tea-tree Weeping-tree Lemon Scented Teatree

Grey cottonheads Native Fuchsia Salmon Correa Common Correa - Prostrate Native Fuchsia Brown Laurel Lemon Scent Grass Dampiera diversifolia Blue Eyes Common Wallaby Grass Wallaby Grass Flax-Lily or Paroo Lily Spreading Flax-Lilly Flax Lilly Tasman Flax-lily Gymea Lily Cascade of Stars Silver Princess Broad-leaved peppermint Red capped gum - Illyarie Red flowering gum SA Blue Gum Large fruited white gum - Blue Gum Swamp Bloodwood/Gove Gum Wandoo Weeping fig Red Fruited Saw Sedge Native Fuchsia Grevillea Superb Grevillea Honey Gem Grevillea 'Sunset Bronze' Grevillea 'John Evans' Grevillea Splendour Grevillea Scarlet Sprite Evergreen Grevillea Misty Pink Grevillea 'Kay Williams' Bank's Grevillia Grevillea crithmifolia Grevillea 'Firesprite' Grevillea 'Austraflora Bon Accord' Lavender Grevillea Grevillea 'Simply Sarah' Grevillea 'Elegance' 'Gin Gin' Grevillea Gin Gin Gem form Olive Leaf Grevillea Grevillea 'Sylvia' Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Mantle' Fern Leaved Grevillea Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon' Grevillea 'Sandra Gordon' "Teaspray" or Gilt Dragon Spider Net Grevillea 'Guilt Dragon' Grass Tree Violet Westringia Beard Heath Cabbage Palm Brush Box Nardoo Rainbow Nardoo SiIver leafed paperbark Corkwood Weeping Grass, Meadow Rice Grass Native Wisteria Mimusops elengi Creeping Boobialla, Dwarf Native Myrtle Sticky Boobyalla Spiral Screw Palm Wonga Vine Purple Flags Yellow FlameTree Native Apricot Tussock Grass Pongamia pinnata Psychotria loniceroides Tassel Cord Rush Paper Cascade Everlasting Red bush apple Tamarind Cockies Tongue Terminalia sericocarpa Kangaroo Grass