A superb coastal garden plant, native to the South Island's Marlborough coastline, and able to withstand the poorest and roughest of conditions. In summer it has beautiful daisy-like flowers with yellow centres. And all year round it has glossy deep-green leaves with grey felt-like undersides.
A stunning rich, smokey, dark-grey dwarf flax, with leaf undersides in a distinct silvery blue. It holds its colour well and foliage weeps to form a stylish clump; at home in garden or pot - where it grows quickly to fill a spot or gap. Bold summer flowers attract native birds.
A superb and most striking plant. Metre long arching green leaves with cream stripings and red margins.surrounding a broad centre band of cream are its special feature. Likes sun and any reasonable soil. A hardy ornamental. 1 x 1.2m.
Phormium Crimson Devil
Phormium 'Crimson Devil'
Imposing rich red with darker marginned leaves arching gracefully to form a subject prized for its sheer design and simple poise. Use in a myriad of different ways in the garden from feature plants in borders in containers around ponds. Stunning. 75 x75cm.
Phormium Duet
Phormium cookianum 'Duet'
An excellent dwarf flax. Slender erect green leaves broadly banded creamy white. Forming stiff spiky clumps it will grow in any reasonable soil or garden conditions. Suitable for a myriad of landscaping or container uses. 60 x 60cm.
Phormium Surfer
Phormium cookianum x tenax 'Surfer'
A lovely miniature flax. Young leaves are a green colour with narrow brown stripes. Older leaves have yellow-green edges and a red tinged back & mid rib. Ideal for borders or rockery situations. Hardy. Suited to most soil types. Grows 30 x 30cm.
Something a little different in the popular sweet-pea-bush, a compact grower with glaucous leaves and rich pink/purple flowers. This evergreen shrub tolerates poor soils and dry conditions. A light clip early in spring will encourage new growth and a spring flush of flowers that will last until summer, and repeatedly spot flower almost all year round. Lovely contrast with white-flowered underplantings.
Forms a large rounded bush. Pink flowers are formed steadily from autumn to mid summer. Can be grown in most general garden conditions, but must have free draining soil. Makes an excellent cut flower. Grows 2 x 2m.
Highly decorative native shrub with distinctive lobed leaves in a glossy rich green. Excellent landscape feature, avenue or background plant. Perfect in a group or mingled among other foliage plants, bringing something of a sub-tropical look. Makes a good tub plant for a year or two when it's readily transplanted to the garden.
Excellent selected form with three or five lobed leaves, at first bronzy green, turning rich black-red as Winter cold approaches, retaining this colour until early Summer. Hardy, easily grown, attractive garden or container plant. Grows 2 x 1m.
