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Star Blush is a compact evergreen bushy NZ selection of this African species. Similar to a heather in its growth habit, summertime finds Star Blush covered with attractive deep pink, star like flowers. The foliage has a lemon scent when touched. Good in containers or in the border. Perennial.
Tolerant of coastal conditions and light frosts.
Acmadenia Star Blush
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 2l ?
$26.99
Gorgeously pink, Single flowers appear in spring and repeat during summer and autumn; in winter the evergreen foliage becomes bronze, for year-round colour interest -- in containers as well as borders. These lovely shrubs look terrific in a mixed border or in foundation plantings. Evergreen.
All thrive in full sun or partial shade and evenly moist, acid soil.
Azalea Autumn Empress
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5L ?
$29.99
Encore Azaleas are more sun tolerant than other azaleas and are re-bloomers with rich, colourful blooms in spring, summer and autumn. This striking variety stands out in any landscape with its blazing display of colour. PVR.CONLEB
Azalea Autumn Embers
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
Brilliant lavender blooms that are accented with darker purple freckles and stand out against its evergreen foliage. This is an Encore Azalea and so more sun tolerant than other azaleas. Bred for its cold hardiness and rounded growth habit. Beautiful in a pot, mass planted or as a border.
Azalea Autumn Lilac
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
Award winning evergreen with stunning double flowers in Spring. A neat grower with a fairly upright habit. Beautiful mauve flowers with brown spots in the throat. A hardy evergreen shrub that prefers Part sun part shade with slight acidic soil and is free draining.
Can be used in lightly shade borders and woodlands as well in a pot on the deck.
Azalea Elsie Lee
Current Stock Height: 30/50 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
Encore Azaleas are more sun tolerant than other azaleas and are rebloomers with rich, colorful blooms in spring, summer and autumn. Azaleas with a purplish hue are a great alternative to pink and also compliment lighter corals and white Azaleas, adding a rich burst of colour to your landscape.
Azalea Encore Royalty
Current Stock Height: 10/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
A magnificent low growing, frost tolerant evergreen azalea with large frilled pink flowers in abundance. Purple - bronze foliage in winter. Spot flowering in autumn with main blooms in spring. Beautiful mass planted in a landscape or as a specimen in the garden or a container.
Azalea Ripples
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
A Indica hybrid with vigorous growth and profuse flowering. Flowers with deep pink throat, shading to lighter margins. After flowering in spring, pinch back new growth to encourage bud formation. Frost hardy and prefers acidic soil. Evergreen.
Lovely in a pot or used as a border to add some colour in the shade.
Azalea Salmonea
Current Stock Height: 20/40 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
aka Evergeen Azalea
A compact shrub with neat, dark leaves and broad funnel-shaped bright, deep crimson spring flowers. Suitable for full sun and has a very tidy and compact habit.
Azalea Vuyk's Scarlet
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
aka Box
A new variety that is slightly more upright in its growth than wider and more blight-resistant. With compact growth and year round fresh, glossy green foliage they make a great border or clipped hedge. Can be trimmed into a ball to make a statement piece or as a specimen in a container. Evergreen.
Prune late Winter-early Spring to encourage the fresh growth.
Buxus Freedom
Current Stock Height: 10/15 ?
Container: 1.5l ?
$19.99
aka Upright Box
'Graham Blandy' is an upright sort of chap who will always stand up tall and erect in the garden. With a natural columnar habit this Box is perfect for adding an exclamation point to planting schemes. Easy to grow in sun or part shade. Evergreen.
Ideal for narrow spaces or group together to form a natural screen of green. Perhaps march along the side of a path or drive. A very useful plant for directional planting.
Buxus Graham Blandy
Current Stock Height: 50/70 cm ?
Container: 6l ?
$49.99
aka Chinese Beauty Berry
A favourite amongst florists. The Chinese Beauty Berry is unique and beautiful when the slender branches are all dressed up with rich purple shiny berries from autumn through to winter. These are followed by soft downy sage green leaves. Prune after berries fall. Deciduous.
Callicarpa Dichotoma
Current Stock Height: 70/90 cm ?
Container: 5l ?
$24.99
aka Bottlebrush
Bottlebrush. Gorgeous blue-green toned mature foliage with new growth with silver coloured tones due to it's soft hairy texture. Better John Will start flowering mid spring and finish late spring with small red flowers. Requires full sun to part shade and works in sandy to well drained soils. Evergreen. PVR.LJ1
Callistemon Better John
Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ?
Container: 4l ?
$29.99
aka Bottlebrush
An Australian native shrub with shiny green leaves and bright pink bottle brush flowers in late spring. Occasional flowers in autumn. Plant in full sun and well drained soil. Prune after flowering if required.
Callistemon Hot Pink
Current Stock Height: 50/60 cm ?
Container: 4.5l ?
$29.99
Callistemon Hot Pink
Expected Stock Height: 25/35 cm ?
New stock expected End of June, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price $29.99. Payment on order.
aka Bottlebrush
Bottlebrush. Semi dwarf, mass flowering and all the benefits from it's parents. Flower and vigour from Captain Cook and the smaller stature from Little John making McArthur an easy to grow well-behaved plant for any position in your garden. Evergreen. PVR.LC01
Callistemon McArthur
Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ?
Container: 4l ?
$29.99
aka Bottlebrush
A robust and easy to grow evergreen shrub with stiff green foliage. Masses of crimson 'bottle-brushes' appear at the end of each branch from spring through to autumn. Loved by the birds and the bees. Likes a warm position with protection from harsh frost but generally undemanding.
Callistemon Red Cluster
Current Stock Height: 60/80 cm ?
Container: 4.5l ?
$29.99
aka Buttercup Tree
Buttercup Tree. This evergreen shrub is a real stand out in the winter garden. The dark green foliage is covered by a mass of bright yellow 'buttercup' blooms from autumn through winter. Easy to grow in a sunny well drained spot preferably with some wind protection.
As the 'Buttercup Tree' blooms on new growth it is a good idea to prune after flowering each year to encourage new shoots. Don't worry if the leaflets fold at night - they do this naturally - isn't nature clever?
Cassia John Ball
Current Stock Height: 40/50 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
Unique, strange, fun! This plant has a character all of its own, with fine 'hairy' strands of evergreen cascading foliage. Use as a groundcover or feature plant in rockeries, where it will spread to 1.5m across but only 30cm high. Excellent weed suppression, low maintenance. Evergreen
Casuarina Cousin It
Expected Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Currently sold out. Add to your waitlist to be advised when next in stock.
aka California Lilac
An attractive spreading evergreen shrub which features sparkling clusters of dark blue flowers in late spring. The shiny foliage turns a deeps ebony shade during winter, changing to dark chocolate-green during spring and summer. Quite hardy and tolerant of wind and cold. PVR 1334.
This is a very useful shrub for cascading over walls and banks. Benefits from a trim every now and then (after flowering) to encourage healthy new growth. Very striking in full flower.
Ceanothus Blue Sapphire
Current Stock Height: 25/35 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
This spreading prostrate evergreen produces tight clusters of powder-blue flowers. These contrast nicely with the small lime green leaves that are splashed a darker green. This plant needs a well drained warm site in full sun position. Once established it requires little attention other than a light pruning after flowering.
Ceanothus Diamond Heights
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Japonica or Flowering Quince
A tough and hardy deciduous shrub with an arching network of bare branches that usually have thorns. In winter these are covered with clusters of tight buds that open out to single orange flowers. Nice complementary fresh green foliage. Very showy, good for floral art. Easy to grow.
Chaenomeles Orange Storm
Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$32.99
aka Japonica or Flowering Quince
A tough and hardy deciduous shrub with an arching network of bare branches that usually have thorns. In winter these are covered with clusters of tight buds that open out to single orange flowers. Nice complementary fresh green foliage. Very showy, good for floral art. Easy to grow.
Chaenomeles Orange Storm 90cm Std
Current Stock Height: STD-90/HGT-150 cm ?
Container: 8.5l ?
$149.99
aka Japonica or Flowering Quince
A tough and hardy deciduous shrub with an arching network of bare branches that usually have thorns. In winter these are covered with clusters of tight buds that open out to double pink flowers. Nice complementary fresh green foliage. Very showy, good for floral art. Easy to grow.
Chaenomeles Pink Storm
Current Stock Height: 15/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$32.99
aka Japonica or Flowering Quince
A tough and hardy deciduous shrub with an arching network of bare branches that usually have thorns. In winter these are covered with clusters of tight buds that open out to double pink flowers. Nice complementary fresh green foliage. Very showy, good for floral art. Easy to grow.
Chaenomeles Pink Storm 90cm Std
Current Stock Height: STD-90/HGT-150 cm ?
Container: 8.5l ?
$149.99
aka Japonica or Flowering Quince
A tough and hardy deciduous shrub with an arching network of bare branches that usually have thorns. In winter these are covered with clusters of tight buds that open out to double, scarlet red flowers. Nice complementary fresh green foliage. Very showy, good for floral art. Easy to grow.
Chaenomeles Scarlet Storm
Current Stock Height: 20/35 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$32.99
aka Japonica or Flowering Quince
A tough and hardy deciduous shrub with an arching network of bare branches that usually have thorns. In winter these are covered with clusters of tight buds that open out to double, scarlet red flowers. Nice complementary fresh green foliage. Very showy, good for floral art. Easy to grow.
Chaenomeles Scarlet Storm 90cm Std
Current Stock Height: STD-90/HGT-150 cm ?
Container: 8.5l ?
$149.99
aka Mexican Orange Blossom
A wonderful easy care shrub with a neat and tidy habit. Narrow dark green aromatic foliage that always looks good. In spring and summer masses of white star shaped flowers open from pale pink buds. Will grow in sun or part shade, prefers an acid soil but overall is really quite tolerant. Evergreen
Choisya White Dazzler
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.4l ?
$24.99
aka Rock Rose
Rock Rose. Makes a 'Brilliant' show in summer when the aromatic foliage is smothered with rich rosy pink flowers with deep maroon markings and yellow centers. Hardy to most conditions. Great for hot dry spots. Very reliable. Prune lightly after flowering to maintain shape. Evergreen.
Cistus Brilliancy
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$24.99
Cistus Brilliancy
Expected Stock Height: 30/40 cm ?
We are awaiting confirmation from our supplier for an expected delivery date. Express your interest by adding to your Waitlist.
aka Rock Rose
A superb little shrub for those hot dry spots in the garden. The aromatic grey leaves are decorated with hot rose pink flowers off and on throughout the year. Loves warmth and needs a well drained spot. Tolerates light frost and benefits from a trim every now and then. Evergreen.
Cistus Sunset
Current Stock Height: 10/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$24.99
aka Mirror Plant
Native. A fabulous foliage plant with clean shiny foliage that has golden tones in summer. As autumn approaches and the temperatures drop the foliage gradually changes to tones of deep orange and fiery red. Will grow just about anywhere but needs protection from harsh frost. Evergreen. PVR1086.
'Evening Glow' will benefit from a hair cut every now and then. This is best done around about February on a warm dry day.
Coprosma Evening Glow
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
Coprosma Evening Glow
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
aka Mirror Plant
An attractive NZ Native, foliage shrub with small glossy leaves in shades of lemon, lime and green. The colour will intensify in winter. Use as a back-ground plant or for hedging. Easy to grow in most conditions but needs protection from harsh frost. Evergreen. PVR SHM252.
Coprosma Lemon n Lime
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
NZ Native. Ideal for shaping and makes a great ornamental hedge or Standards. Upright growth habit with small rounded glossy green leaves. Hardy. Easy to grow.
Coprosma Middlemore
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
aka Korokio
This lovely dwarf Corokia has unusual almost black foliage with a hint of silver. Fabulous combined with other grey or silver foliage plants. Perhaps plant a group around a stunning black container. Ideal for hedging as it clips well. Tough and easy to grow. Evergreen.
Corokia Little Prince
Current Stock Height: 20/25 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$9.99
A great new hybrid with larger flowers than many of its contemporaries, its scent is divine! Leaves are lustrous and dark green, so will add structure and form all through the year. Its perfect for a partially shady border, or a woodland garden. Evergreen
Perfume Princess is the largest and longest flowering of all Daphne and will tolerate full sun.
Daphne Perfume Princess
Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$44.99
This hybrid has larger white flowers than many of its contemporaries, and their scent is divine! Stems cut for the vase will fill the room with their perfume. Mainly evergreen the leaves are lustrous and dark green, so will add structure and form all through the year. Evergreen
Just perfect for a partially shady border, or a woodland garden.
Daphne Perfume White
Current Stock Height: 25/35 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$44.99
aka Erica or Heath
A very showy little shrub with bright cerise bell shaped blooms that brighten up the garden from winter through to spring. A vigorous grower with needles of dark green foliage. Loves the sun and well drained acid soil. Avoid Lime. Trim after flowering. Evergreen. RHS AGM.
Named after Kurt Kramer of Germany not Seinfield's friend!
Erica Kramers Red
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Heath
This little shrub will brighten up dull winter gardens with its masses of bright cerise tubular blooms. Easy to grow in a sunny well drained position in acid soil. Likes a nice mulch of bark or similar around the base of the plant. Trim after flowering if required. Hardy and evergreen.
Erica Ruby Shepherd
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Mountain Heath
A tough and hardy little shrub with needles of green foliage. In winter through to spring delightful little white flowers do their best to smother the foliage. Low spreading habit. Trim after flowering. Plant in a sunny well drained spot, preferably in acid soil. Avoid Lime. Evergreen.
Erica Springwood White
Current Stock Height: 15/20cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Heather
Small attractive erect shrub with stems clothed in tiny, deep green leaves. In Autumn to spring pink buds open to tubular white flowers cover the stems, maturing to a rosy-pink. Great for floral work. Full sun and a sheltered site best. Trim after flowering to maintain shape. Evergreen
Erica White Delight
Current Stock Height: 30/40cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
Erica White Delight
Expected Stock Height: 30/40cm ?
New stock expected End of June, 2024. Waitlist now. Estimated price $29.99. Payment on order.
aka Wax Flower or Eriostemon
Produces masses of deep pink buds which open to pale pink flowers through the summer. An excellent cut flower widely used by florists. A hardy small shrub from Australia. Evergreen. (AKA Eriostemon)
Eriostemon Flower Girl
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
This bright little shrub will add 'sunshine yellow' to your garden in late winter when not much else is in bloom. A fast grower with bright green evergreen foliage that clips well. The pea shaped yellow flowers appear from late winter to early spring. Happy in a well drained sunny spot.
Genista Yellow Imp
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Hebe or Veronica
This Hebe has a low spreading habit making it useful as a ground-cover. The small dark green leaves and attractive burgundy tones which deepen in cooler weather. Pretty racemes of bright pink flowers appear in abundance in autumn and winter. Plant in a sunny well drained spot. Evergreen.
Hebe Pretty N Pink
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
With its masses of Violet flowers in late Spring- Early Summer they will completely cover the foliage and repeat flower again in Autumn. Prefers a sunny position and free draining soil.
Fertilise annually with long term fertiliser and lightly prune as required.
Hebe Violet Cushion
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
Stock of this item is very low.
aka Bay
A selected form of the ever popular and ancient Bay Tree. Wonderfully aromatic thick, leathery, green leaves that can be used for culinary purposes. Tolerates most conditions including coastal, clips well, great for hedging. Evergreen.
Laurus Nobilis Verdi
Current Stock Height: 40/50 cm ?
Container: 3.3l ?
$39.99
aka Box Honeysuckle
Bushy evergreen shrub with tiny oval deep green leaves. Small creamy white fragrant flowers in summer. Often used as a faster growing Box substitute. Ideal for topiary work and very effective for hedging. Fast growing and hardy.
If you want to quickly establish a nice compact low hedge then this is the plant for you. Lonicera needs a little more clipping than Box but it is very easy to maintain. When used for hedging or topiary then the flowers and fruit will be non existent.
Lonicera Nitida
Current Stock Height: 20 cm
Container: 1.5l ?
$12.99
aka Fringe Flower
An attractive and easy care shrub with arching branches of deep burgundy wine foliage. In spring and summer dark pink 'fringed' flowers appear and these carry a pleasant fragrance. Easy to grow in sun or part shade, prefers well drained soil. Provides a nice contrast to green. Evergreen.
AKA 'The Fringe Flower' Loropetalum is in the same family as 'Witch Hazel'. It has quite a broad habit but responds well to trimming if you wish the shrub to have a more rounded shape.
Loropetalum Burgundy
Current Stock Height: 20/25 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Fringe Flower
Plum Gorgeous is the deepest and darkest coloured foliage of any Loropetalum, and retains its colour all year round. It’s interesting that this fact is seen as a greater attribute than the hot pink tasseled flowers it has through the spring and summer. Evergreen
Great in pots. Clips well.
Loropetalum Plum Gorgeous
Current Stock Height: 20/25 cm ?
Container: 2.4l ?
$26.99
A striking shrub with its dark green foliage and masses of white, very fragrant flowers along slender branches these are very showy. Easy to grow in morning sun or dappled light, prefers acid soil if possible. Responds well to clipping which should be done after flowering.
Osmanthus Delavayi
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$29.99
Osmanthus Delavayi
Current Stock Height: 50/60 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$34.99
aka Flannel flower
The 'Flannel Bush' has unusual, fluffy, pom pom flower bracts in shades of cream that sit proudly on top of the strong branchlets making them perfect for picking. Rounded evergreen shrub to 70cm tall. Prefers a sunny position and loose open soil that is free draining. Winter flowering. Evergreen.
Phylica Plumosa
Current Stock Height: 20/40 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
aka Firethorn
This is one for the birds as they just love the bright red berries that follow the masses of white flowers at the end of summer. Compact in habit with glossy green leaves and few thorns. Grows just about anywhere and in any soil but prefers a sunny spot that isn't too wet. Evergreen.
Pyracantha are suitable for training as espaliers and look particularly good against a sunny wall where you can observe the birds par-taking of a 'berry' nice breakfast.
Pyracantha Brilliant
Current Stock Height: 50/70 cm ?
Container: 3.3l ?
$29.99
aka Indian Hawthorn
This is an excellent little shrub that will reward you for very little effort. The leathery bronze-green foliage always looks good and the deep pink flowers appear in generous clusters from late winter to spring. Nice compact low habit, easy to grow in a sunny spot. Evergreen.
Rhaphiolepis Apple Blossom
Current Stock Height: 10/20 cm ?
Container: 2l ?
$26.99
Very compact shrub, bright pink flowers, paling with age, with dominant flare. Trusses are very round and compact and are held well to give a good display. The plant is hardy and has a good dense habit. Can suffer frost damage to the buds in very cold areas. Flowers Spring.
Prefers partial shade during summer time.
Rhododendron Noyo Brave
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
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aka David Viburnum
This little shrub forms a wide-spreading compact mound. The dark green leathery leaves that have a pale under-side. Small creamy white flowers in spring are followed by beautiful blue berries that hold through winter - the main feature! Needs male company to produce berries. Evergreen.
Viburnum Davidii Female
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 5l ?
$29.99
A compact shrub with quite coarse green foliage, carmine pink buds appear in late winter and open to white blooms tinged pink. Flowers are lightly perfumed and followed by dark blue berries. Easy to grow in sun or light shade. Responds well to pruning. Evergreen. RHS AGM.
Viburnum Gwenllian
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$26.99
A semi-dwarf coastal variety of rosemary that forms a natural "box" shape. Australian Native. Bright green foliage and small mauve flowers in spring and summer. Great as a low garden hedge or left to form its natural ball shape. Hardy, frost and drought tolerant once established. Evergreen.
Westringia Aussie Box
Current Stock Height: 10/20 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$21.99
aka Australian Rosemary
This tough little Aussie shrub looks good even when neglected. Dark green rosemary like foliage that forms a spreading mound, masses of white flowers that appear mainly in spring. Likes the sun but will tolerate some shade. Must have good drainage. Evergreen.
Westringia Mundi
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$24.99
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