Save your garden from water addiction.
To help Perth gardeners ween their gardens off unsustainable and unnecessary irrigation we are giving away each week fifty plants that will thrive with little or no water over summer, absolutely free. To qualify all you have to do is print out the voucher, or just write down the unique code, found at this page and bring it in to the nursery between 10am and 6pm on the following Saturday to collect your free plant.
To keep things fair, claims will only be valid on the Saturday indicated and will be strictly limited to one plant per voucher, per person, per year. If you don't claim you will need to try again with a new voucher. Fifty vouchers will be available each week from Saturday morning until exhausted. Vouchers issued on Saturday will not be redeemable until the following Saturday.
Real garden plants for West Australian conditions. Mail order plants Australia wide.
At Zephs we grow real garden plants selected from the worlds most beautiful and popular varieties for their ability to thrive in real garden environments.
Zephs is not a garden centre, our plants are not imported from other nurseries, potted on, and sold to you during the brief season our climate is suitable to their cultivation. Our plants are grown year round in West Australian conditions without the need for climate controlled facilities. You can visit our plants in the nursery on a forty degree day or on a winter morning after the frost has thawed and meet the survivors, thrivers and also-rans. Not having to buy in stock or constantly replace expiring plants allows us to provide greater value to our customers and many of our offerings, unsustainable under the perverse nursery practice of constant irrigation, shade and increased humidity, are rarely found in more traditional nurseries.
Enjoy browsing our online nursery where you will find a host of uncommon and hard to source plants, as well as old favourites, with a focus on plants from and for Mediterranean climates. Try something new or reacquaint yourself with an old friend.
Create a journal and start earning gardeners points for every purchase, online or at the nursery. Points have an equivalent cash value of one cent per point when redeemed at checkout and some special plants and rarities are only available by point redemption. Keep an eye out out for plants bearing bonus points.
Terms, disclaimers and additional info
- Postage for mail order plants is $5 per order within WA and $10 per order to all other states. Orders are generally dispatched within one week but may occasionally be longer. Due to quarantine requirements orders to NT and TAS will be sent in October or as demand dictates, please understand this helps us keep prices down.
- All plants, with the exception of some larger stock only available at the nursery, are grown in root training 90mm pots. Allowing for young healthy plants with young vigorous root systems that establish readily. Large flowering pot bound plants that establish poorly are not desirable by us or for you.
- For local customers or visitors all plants in our online nursery and more in quantities too limited to list are available for immediate purchase at the nursery. Some are available in larger sizes and prices may differ. The nursery is open Friday to Monday between 10am and 6pm and is located at 78 Great Northern Hwy, Midland, Western Australia. You will find us easily on the corner of Margaret Street. When visiting the nursery please be aware that we only acccept cash or Paypal this allows us to keep prices as low as possible.
- Mail order plants are carefully packed in their pots, perhaps with a little trimming, into cardboard boxes and sent via Australia Post. We do our best to ensure your plants arrive just as if you had picked them up at the nursery.
- You will notice while browsing this site that many plants, particularly the new introductions, do not yet have descriptions. We try to provide information applicable to our Mediterranean, West Australian conditions. Until we have observed how a plant grows and performs here it is difficult to provide any meaningful insights to it's cultivation or use in the garden. Until we learn enough to share we hope you will find the search function of the plant records helpful.
- Nearly all of our plants are grown in an inorganic mix based on a naturally occuring volcanic glass called perlite. It is harmless, inert, light weight, provides excellent drainage and digging it into your soil will increase aeration in heavy soils and water retention in lighter soils.
- We do not use insecticides or fungicides as good plants should be able to survive in the real world. We do use Iron based snail pellets for the control of slugs and snails. These are harmless to other animals and feed the plants a small dose of Iron.
- As we don't use herbicides in the pots there are often seedlings to be found in your purchases. Whilst these may be weeds, most of the time they are the beautiful self seeders that you see in the nursery or indeed could be just about anything. Make sure you know what you are pulling out.
- We sell plants not fancy labels. Pots are labeled as they leave the nursery with paper stickers. These are cheap, biodegradable and are not made from fossil fuel. All purchases are recorded in your journal for permanent reference.
- Trade customers are welcome at the nursery and receive 10% discount on all plants, 20% on invoices over $500.
- We can grow plants to meet your requirements. Contract orders require a 50% deposit, refundable on failure of supply. Please inquire for a quote.
- Consulting on climatically appropriate gardens, horticulture and the practicalities associated with related ventures is charged at $180 an hour plus GST and travel expenses. Reduced rates may apply for ongoing consultancy. Advice given at the nursery is free but you may not like it.
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