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The Dandora school is also planting trees including jacaranda and grevillea.

It provides an indoor-outdoor experience where their kids can roam free in a drought-tolerant garden filled with sages, California poppies and grevillea, and they can spend time with the ones they love.

The program has also evaluated other landscape plants grown without irrigation, including manzanita, grevillea, rockrose and California lilac.

The perennial foliage is beautiful too, with plentiful heath banksia, grevillea, bottlebrush and a stand of slim-limbed eucalypts with lustrous silver bark.

“Here’s another one that would be good, you could use it for screening,” she said, stopping next to a pointy-leafed grevillea in a pot.