Old Man Saltbush Atriplex nummularia Native Plants Silver Shrubs

Great animal fodder/bush tucker plants with silver foliage for those hard to grow dry areas.

If you buy 5 or more, you will receive $1.00 Off per plant.

You will receive 1 plant of

Old Man Saltbush Atriplex nummularia Tough plants/shrubs

Used by many farmers to utilise low-yielding land and/or to have animal fodder production during dry seasons.
Foriaged by cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, etc.

Please do your own research on saltbush's stock fodder suitability for the animals you want to feed it to, as I will not be held liable if you feed it to your one of kind egg-laying Llamas, milk producing emu, normal ruminant or similar and it keels over and dies :-)

Not for Western Australia, Northern Territory or Tasmania

The plants you will receive will be 10-20cm tall, will be in individual 40mm x 80mm hyco pots, will have established roots and will be ready to plant into your garden.

Able to adapt to nearly all of the climate and location extremes of Australia.

Works/looks best in gardens if trimmed back once a year in Spring.
Or of you have the space… Just let them go.

A tough border or hedging variety.

Drought, frost, wind, salt and heat tolerant.

Frost tolerant to minus 5c

Will grow in coastal areas.

Extremely deep rooting plants and genetic systems that allows them to thrive when most other plants fail.

They can access and retain moisture and nutrients lost to many species.

Handles wet feet over prolonged periods.

It recovers quickly from grazing (don't overgraze).

Can live on brackish or higher salted bore water. 
 

Tolerates high salt content as it uptakes the salt and stores it in special leaf cells.

Grown throughout the world for landscaping, fodder, windbreaks, feature/standard/ornamental plantings, hedges, borders and shelter.

Full sun to light shade.

Grey/Silver evergreen foliage.

It has a fairly high protein yield and digestibility rate.

Height: approx to 2 metres if left to itself and grown in good conditions. 
Can be hedged from 30cm upwards.  

We work hard to try and ensure our notes on the variety/varieties listed are true and correct, but do not accept any responsibility for errors or misinformation that may have occurred either by my staff or me.  

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