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aka Sedge
A very attractive little 'Sedge' with arching leaves of green edged with silver. Forms a neat and tidy evergreen clump and would look most impressive planted en masse. Plant in morning sun or part shade in soil that does not completely dry out in summer. Would make a nice container plant too. Perennial. PVR.
Insignificant brown flowers will appear amongst the foliage in summer.
Carex Everest
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
aka Sedge
An attractive and award winning little Carex with variegated arching foliage in shades of cream and soft yellow. Eventually forms a neat and tidy clump. Looks best planted in large drifts to form a carpet under trees etc. Grows best in part shade. Evergreen.
Carex 'Evergold' prefers to grow in a soil that does not completely dry out in summer.
Carex Evergold
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
aka Sedge
The striking foliage starts out chartreuse and then shades to golden yellow through the summer. Great for brightening up shady spots, or for adding a pop of colour to a mixed container. This easy care evergreen grass can be used as a groundcover, to edge a path or patio, or tucked into a living wall or window box. Perennial
Carex Everillo
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
aka Sedge
Easy on the eyes, easy to grow and low maintenance, this plant forms a neat, easily controlled mound of green foliage with lime margins. Everlime is a great cold hardy accent plant for all year round arrangements. Everlime does well in mass plantings and in open situations. Perennial
Carex Everlime
Current Stock Height: 15/25 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
aka Sedge
Carex Eversheen is a superb ground cover and container plant with distinctive lime yellow striped foliage. A wonderful little selection with a fresh appearance. It is easy to grow, low maintenance and forms a neat easily controlled mound. Eversheen is a great cold hardy accent plant for all year round arrangements. Perennial
Carex Eversheen
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
Featherfalls is a highly decorative Carex with great garden or pot performance. With long clean and crisp foliage it is a year round maintenance free plant. A highlight of this new variety is its beautiful plumes of feathery flower stems emerging from the centre during spring. Evergreen
Carex Featherfalls
Current Stock Height: 15/25 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
aka Tussock Grass
NZ Native Grass. This is a graceful little grass or tussock with fine, light silver green needles of foliage that curl over at the top. Looks its best when planted in large groups or drifts. Easy to grow in sun or part shade in average soil. Evergreen.
If your clump of Carex becomes a little scruffy give it a new 'do' by cutting off the top growth - you can be quite severe - and it will rapidly re grow with renewed vigour.
Carex Frosted Curls
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 1.5l ?
$14.99
aka Purei, Pukio
Native wetland grass. A bright green grass that forms a large clump. With age, a trunk-like mass of old leaves forms so the grass seems perched on a tall mound. Good for planting in damp to wet areas but will tolerate short periods of dryness. Plant around ponds as shelter for birds. Evergreen
Evergreen
Carex Secta
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
aka Tussock, NZ Sedge
This native 'grass' is really tough and hardy tolerating cold winds and almost any soil. The brick-orange foliage looks very graceful as it waves and dances in the wind. Ideal for planting in large drifts. If the clumps become a little untidy just chop back hard for renewed vigour. Evergreen.
Carex Testacea
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 1.5l ?
$14.99
Carex Testacea
Current Stock Height: 40/50 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$24.99
NZ Native Grass that is a successful colonising plant often used for wetland planting that can also grow on dry sites making it suitable for planting where the conditions may vary periodically. Virgata is a mass of green needle foliage. Tolerant coastal condition. Evergreen.
Carex Virgata
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
aka Kapuka
Native. A selected form of the ever popular Griselinia. Gorgeous, broad, glossy green foliage with attractive wavy margins. Ideal background shrub but at its best when used as a hedge. Tolerant of just about any planting conditions including coastal. Very tidy and well groomed. Evergreen.
Griselinia Broadway Mint
Current Stock Height: 40/50 cm ?
Container: 1l ?
$12.99
Griselinia Broadway Mint
Current Stock Height: 80/100 cm ?
Container: 5l ?
WAS $39.99
NOW $34.99
Griselinia Broadway Mint
Current Stock Height: 25/35 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
aka Topiarists Hebe
A lovely neat and tidy Hebe that always looks like it has just been clipped hence the common name of Topiarist's Hebe. The dainty grey-green leaves on short stems form a rounded compact mound. Use in groups or as an ideal contrast plant. Likes the sun and well drained soil. Hardy and evergreen.
Hebe Topiaria will occasionally flower in summer with little white flowers that are rather inconspicuous. Its value is as a foliage shrub and is highly enough thought of to have received an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.
Hebe Topiaria
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
aka Koromiko
Evergreen Hebe which is considered one of the best. Hardy, compact with dainty fresh green foliage and short spikes of white flowers which completely smother the plant from late spring through until summer. Happiest in a sunny well drained position. Very disease resistant.
The 'Wiri' series of Hebe have been bred, selected and named by Jack Hobbs of Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens.
Hebe Wiri Mist
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$24.99
This plant will soon be in stock and can be pre-purchased now.
Hebe Wiri Mist
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$24.99
aka NZ Iris
Native. The NZ Iris is an attractive clump forming perennial with spears of fresh green foliage. In summer white 'butterfly' flowers dance above the leaves on stiff, wiry stems. These are followed by ornamental seed pods. Well worth planting and easy to grow. Evergreen.
Libertia Grandiflora
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$22.99
Libertia Grandiflora
Current Stock Height: 30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
This plant will soon be in stock and can be pre-purchased now.
aka NZ Iris
Native. An evergreen perennial with green sword-like leaves. Ideal for both shade and open conditions. It likes a well drained fertile soil. Panicles of white flowers around in early summer. Ideal for mass planting. Hardy
Libertia Grasshopper
New stock expected Middle of May, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price TBA. Payment on order.
aka NZ Iris
This little Iris has to be one of my favourite NZ natives as it has such dainty white "butterfly" flowers. The narrow sword like leaves form a strong clump, the flowers appear in summer followed by ornamental seed pods. Easy to grow in average soil in a sunny position. Evergreen.
Libertia Ixiodes
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$22.99
aka NZ Iris
A native perennial with narrow spears of bronze green foliage that turns orange-brown in winter. Wiry stems of dainty white 'butterfly' flowers appear in spring and summer. Prefers a semi-shaded position and acid soil. Evergreen.
Libertia Peregrinans
Expected Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
New stock expected Middle of May, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price TBA. Payment on order.
Libertia Peregrinans
Expected Stock Height: 15/25 cm ?
New stock expected Middle of May, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price TBA. Payment on order.
aka Flax
An ultra compact Phormium with unique contrasting minty green foliage mixed with chocolate brown. Great for low borders or mass planted for colour and effect. Remove older foliage as required. Evergreen.
Phormium Stripy Mist
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$26.99
aka Flax
A new must have for the garden. Its beautiful bronze colour makes it an excellent choice for colour contrast against green. Very tolerant of frost, wind and coastal conditions, Phormium 'Sweet Mist' will come up trumps. Grows to 35 to 40 cm tall.PVR.PH0S2
Phormium Sweet Mist
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$26.99
Native. You will want this naturally compact rounded Pittosporum because it looks great with it's limey green leaves. A great boarder plant that will look just as at home on your patio in a container or in the garden. Plant in full sun. Tough and hardy. Evergreen.
Pittorsporums love well drained fertile soil but are remarkably tolerant plants and will adapt to less than ideal conditions. They are hardy and generally healthy.
Pittosporum Fankies Folly
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 5l ?
$24.99
Pittosporum Fankies Folly
Expected Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
New stock expected End of August, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price $29.99. Payment on order.
Pittosporum Fankies Folly
Expected Stock Height: 35/40 cm ?
New stock expected Beginning of July, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price $69.99. Payment on order.
aka Kohuhu
Native. A dwarf compact form of Pittosporum which has glossy foliage in tones of green and gold. Forms a natural rounded shape without the need for lots of trimming though it is quite happy to have a haircut. Suitable for container planting. Sun or part shade, hardy and evergreen.
Pittosporum Goldenball
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 2.4l ?
$24.99
aka Kohuhu
Native. You'll love this versatile little plant which forms a dense rounded ball of fresh green foliage that seldom needs clipping. Looks fabulous group planted or makes a natural topiary specimen for court-yard containers. Grows well in sun or part shade. PVR.
Pittorsporums love well drained fertile soil but are remarkably tolerant plants and will adapt to less than ideal conditions. They are hardy and generally healthy.
Pittosporum Golfball
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 2.4l ?
$24.99
aka Pittosporum
Native. A lovely new variety of Pittosporum with small glossy green leaves and black stems. Neat and tidy upright habit. Great for hedging, shelters, screening or as a specimen. Plant in sun to part shade in well drained soil. Evergreen.
Pittosporum Mountain Jade
Current Stock Height: 50/70 cm ?
Container: 5l ?
$24.99
Pittosporum Mountain Jade
Expected Stock Height: 190/200 cm ?
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New stock expected Beginning of July, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price $69.99. Payment on order.
aka Kohuhu
Native. You'll love this versatile little plant which forms a dense rounded ball of shimmering silver green foliage that seldom needs clipping. Looks fabulous group planted or makes a natural topiary specimen for court-yard containers. Grows well in sun or part shade. PVR.
Pittosporum Silverball
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 2.4l ?
$24.99
Native. An intriguing moss-like plant that forms dense mounded cushions of emerald green foliage with fascinating humps and hollows. A great plant for rockeries, ferneries and containers. Does best in well-drained soil in Full sun to part shade. Evergreen
Scleranthus Crew Cut
Expected Stock Height: 3/5 cm ?
New stock expected Middle of October, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price TBA. Payment on order.
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