Plants for ... Coastal gardens
Aeonium Schwarzkorf
Aeonium arboreum 'Schwarzkorf'
Here’s a plant with rich, dark chocolate and plum coloured foliage. It’s a reliable beauty, looking dark and sensual all year round, performing magnificently month after month. As a succulent it will tolerate very dry conditions, but in summer it will look more beautiful if watered during dry periods. As a container plant, Aeonium Schwartzkopf is ideal, easy to grow, as well as stunningly good-looking. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Arctotis Hannah
Arctotis 'Hannah'
Stunning moroccan-red flowers are are just one of the outstanding features of this ground cover daisy. Flowering from late winter until late autumn with spot flowering over winter in warmer areas. Rapidly grows forming a mounded clump. Likes full sun and good drainage. Grows 50cm x 75cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Arctotis Hayley
Arctotis 'Hayley'
Large showy tallow-wood honey & yellow flowers are produced from late winter until late autumn with spot flowering over winter in warmer areas. Loves sunny well-drained spot in the garden. Rapidly grows to form a mounded clump. Its the perfect ground cover. Grows 50cm x 75cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Arthropodium Matapouri Bay
Arthropodium cirratum 'Matapouri Bay'
Known widely as the Reinga Lily, this selection heralds from the cliffs above Matapouri Bay in Northland and features robust, broad leaves with a hint of blue. Summer brings forth a magnificent display of creamy white flowers on long stalks. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Astelia banksii
Astelia banksii
Wonderful structural plant for gardens in coastal and warmer parts of New Zealand - attractive, narrow silver foliage. It'll grow to form a tight, compact and tidy clump that needs little care, though will benefit from protection from harsh winds. A great choice for coastal and seaside gardens, coastal cliffs being its natural habitat. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Astelia Silver Spear
Astelia chathamica 'Silver Spear'
New Zealand gardens have undergone a transformation in recent years, the use of strong structural forms having become very popular. Right at the forefront of this is a once-endangered New Zealand (Chatham Islands) native. A very dramatic landscape plant that's become a standard setter. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Brachyglottis Otari Cloud
Brachyglottis Otari 'Otari Cloud'
A rounded shrub that’s a feature all year round, whether in flower or not. For most of the year its silver-grey-green foliage looks great. Then summer brings forth a stunning flower display in bright yellow. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Carex Caramel Curls
Carex comans 'Caramel Curls'
This evergreen tuft-forming perennial sedge makes a dense spreading mound. It has green leaves with white tips. Frost-hardy, it is best suited to moist free-draining soils in full sun or partial shade. May be grown with effect in containers or borders. Grows 30x 45cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Carex Frosted Curls
Carex comans 'Frosted Curls'
This evergreen tuft-forming perennial sedge makes a dense spreading mound. It has green leaves with white tips. Frost-hardy, it is best suited to moist free-draining soils in full sun or partial shade. May be grown with effect in containers or borders. Grows 30x 45cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Carex testacea
Carex testacea
A beautiful densely-tufted native grass with a rich golden-brown-orange colouration intensified by sun and winter. Its arching and spreading foliage is handsome year round making it a plant of choice upfront near entrance ways, along paths and in patio pots. A great foil for dark or silver-foliaged structure plants. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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