• are the groundcovers such asGrevillea lanigera and Dampiera alata. The first year they were fantastic. As the canopy grows and increases and they begin to die out.
• The are plants around a meter. Grevillea ‘Coconut Ice’ has performed very well. The Acacia acinacea was in this category but it’s really more an emergent plant.
• layer are the plants that grow up towards 2 metres. It includes the Eucalypts (caesia and preissiana) that have a straggly form. “The idea is that it mimics a heathland with straggly emergent shrubs that are naturally pruned through fire and grazing”.

• have a long visual display with flowering
• have a mix of heights with different layers
• recover from coppicing (harsh pruning)

• They measured the heights of all plants, noting when species flower, look at the canopy closure and note what has died or fails to thrive.
• Not everything did well in this plant community such as Banskia spinulosa. It was just too slow-growing so they want to try other banksia species.
• Results indicated that the low diversity plots (12 species in high density) were the best.

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