Uses: Hardy ornamental dwarf to medium shrub for more open locations, wider verges, median strips, parks and reserves. Planted singly as a colourful background in mixed plantings or en-mass as a barrier, screen or informal hedge. This is a variable species which has many subspecies and hybrids.
Responds to pruning.
Attracts native birds and insects.
Note: This species is provisionally classified schedule 1, Regulation 24.2 under the Sewerage Act. Written approval is required prior to planting in streets or roads. It should not be planted closer than two metres to any sewer main or connection.