GROWING GUIDES · FEBRUARY 2026

Take your pack home with confidence.

Thank you for purchasing our February Pollinator Packs, this month supporting Footscray West Primary School participate in our Growing Gardeners program. Click your pack below for everything you need to grow something beautiful.

Jump to: Superbloom Re-wild West Tiny Gardeners
Superbloom
For the gardener who wants their patch to be a destination for pollinators.
Cosmos Double Click Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Cosmos Double Click
UseFeature plant Height0.90-1.20 m Width0.40-0.50 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Produces fully double, semi-double and single blooms from white through to crimson on tall airy stems that bees and butterflies visit readily.
Cosmos Sensation Mix
Cosmos Sensation Mix
UseFeature plant Height1.00-1.50 m Width0.45-0.60 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Grows tall with large single blooms in shades of pink, white and crimson and flowers prolifically through summer into autumn.
Cosmos Apricotta Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Cosmos Apricotta
UseFiller plant Height0.80-1.00 m Width0.40-0.50 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Opens in soft apricot tones that deepen with age and provides a long, reliable cutting season.
Alyssum Pixie Lemon Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Alyssum Pixie Lemon
UseGround cover Height0.10-0.15 m Width0.20-0.30 m ConditionsFull sun to part shade, well-drained soil
Forms a low scented carpet of pale lemon flowers that draws in hoverflies and small pollinators across a long flowering period.
Poppy Shirley Double Mix Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Poppy Shirley Double Mix
UseFeature plant Height0.60-0.90 m Width0.20-0.30 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Produces ruffled double blooms in soft pastel shades on slender stems and self-seeds freely once established.
California Poppy Golden West Photo credit: The Seed Collection
California Poppy Golden West
UseFiller plant Height0.30-0.45 m Width0.20-0.30 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained, poor to average soil
Opens vivid orange cup-shaped flowers in full sun and self-seeds reliably to return year after year.
Poppy Angel's Choir Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Poppy Angel's Choir
UseFeature plant Height0.60-0.80 m Width0.20-0.30 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Bears semi-double frilled blooms in soft pastel and bicolour tones that bring movement and softness to a planting.
Re-wild West
For the gardener who wants their patch to get back to its origins. Australian natives that belong in this landscape.
Everlasting Strawflower Silvery Rose
Everlasting Strawflower Silvery Rose
UseFeature plant Height0.40-0.60 m Width0.30-0.40 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Produces papery silvery-pink blooms that retain their colour when dried and self-seeds readily in open ground.
Everlasting Daisy Pink Clusters Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Everlasting Daisy Pink Clusters
UseFiller plant Height0.30-0.45 m Width0.25-0.35 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Forms dense clusters of papery pink flowers that attract native bees and hold their colour for months in a vase.
Brachyscome
Brachyscome
UseGround cover Height0.15-0.30 m Width0.30-0.50 m ConditionsFull sun to part shade, well-drained soil
Spreads into a low mounding carpet of small daisy flowers and attracts hoverflies and native bees over a long season.
Strawflower White Photo credit: Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds
Strawflower White
UseFeature plant Height0.50-0.70 m Width0.30-0.40 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Bears crisp white papery blooms with golden centres and dries well for long-lasting arrangements.
Billy Button
Billy Button
UseFeature plant Height0.40-0.60 m Width0.20-0.30 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Produces bright golden globe-shaped flower heads on slender stems that dry well and add structure to native arrangements.
Tiny Gardeners
For little hands, small spaces and anyone new to gardening. Easy-to-grow, hard-to-fail varieties.
Calendula Greenheart Orange Photo credit: Gang of Babes Photography
Calendula Greenheart Orange
UseFeature plant Height0.40-0.60 m Width0.30-0.40 m ConditionsFull sun to part shade, well-drained soil
Produces bright orange blooms with contrasting green centres and flowers reliably from seed in a single season, making it an easy first grow.
Gomphrena Strawberry Fields Photo credit: Mr Forthergill's
Gomphrena Strawberry Fields
UseFeature plant Height0.50-0.70 m Width0.25-0.35 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil, heat tolerant
Produces strawberry-red clover-like blooms that hold their colour when dried and are easy for young gardeners to grow from seed.
Cornflower Blue Boy
Cornflower Blue Boy
UseFiller plant Height0.60-0.90 m Width0.20-0.30 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Produces classic cobalt-blue blooms on upright stems and is one of the easiest cut flowers for children to grow from seed.
Cat Mint
Cat Mint
UseFiller plant Height0.30-0.50 m Width0.40-0.60 m ConditionsFull sun to part shade, well-drained soil
Forms a soft mounding clump of grey-green foliage and lavender-blue flower spikes that bees visit constantly through warm months.
Amaranth Love Lies Bleeding
Amaranth Love Lies Bleeding
UseFeature plant Height1.00-1.50 m Width0.40-0.50 m ConditionsFull sun, well-drained soil
Produces dramatic trailing crimson flower tassels that hold their colour when dried and create a striking feature in any garden.