Drought-resistant plants once grown at Murga

What drought-resistant plants were once grown at Murga?

Well, a walk through the Murga Parkland ruins, over a decade ago (before the recent and terrible drought of several years duration!) revealed the following specimens still surviving from the old days:


*Photinea serrata
*Some sort of cotoneaster
*A crepe myrtle
*A pink honeysuckle--probably Lonicera hispidula.


These plants had survived, obviously, for decades without extra water or care. The honeysuckle was sick and miserable with aphids, but it--to it's credit!--still managed a few pink blooms.

Looking around the valley at Murga, there are a few other drought-resistant sights to be seen near abandoned farmhouses and old garden sites. In the paddock next to the sawmill, there's an old yucca, surviving and blooming unattended. (Good for honeyeaters!) Also a super-tough pink climbing rose of some description. Elsewhere I see a couple of oleanders blooming nicely, and a couple of japonicas, outside an old farmhouse now used as a shed.