Liddle Wonder's Schemes & Themes - Winter
Here's some plants and features that we've added over the past few months. If you visit our site from time to time, this is a handy page to bookmark or add to your favourites for quick access to what's new on the site
Acmadenia Starblush
Acmadenia tetragona 'Starblush'
Starblush is a tidy, multi-branched, mounded, and heather-like shrub that's a mass of flower from late in winter. Its tiny (1.5cm) flowers are a bright pink with a hint of purple and a red mid-rib, and smother the bush very early in spring. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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
Aloe bainseii
Aloe bainseii
Often sought after, but sometimes difficult to obtain, this is a magnificent specimen plant. One is reputed to be the most photographed plant in Auckland's Regional Botanical Gardens! A tree-like species from South Africa, it can grow to 15 metres in ideal conditions with a 2 metre trunk - in cooler NZ though, such vigorous growth is highly unlikely. Rich green, sword-shaped leaves, with rose-tipped green flowers in winter. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Aloe plicatilis
Aloe plicatilis
A unique and striking multi-branched shrub or small tree from South Africa's southwestern Cape where it's known as the fan aloe - a reference to the unique layout of its strap-like leaves. As the bush matures, racemes of tubular scarlet flowers are a spectacular sight in late-winter and spring. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Aloe polyphylla
Aloe polyphylla
This fascinating succulent's been in high demand for many years, but until now only a few connoisseurs have been satisfied. Its spiraling leaf pattern bedazzles all who see it. It can spiral either clockwise or anticlockwise and long-established plants flower in spring or summer, though not always reliably so. 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
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
Ceanothus Blue Sapphire
Ceanothus 'Blue Sapphire'
Superb hardy ground cover shrub with masses of deep blue flowers in spring. It's spectacular on walls, banks, rock gardens and as a foreground plant. Plant in a sunny, well drained positon. Extremely hardy to wind and cold. Spreads to 1.5 metres, growing 75cm high. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Ceanothus Diamond Heights
Ceanothus 'Diamond Heights'
An outstanding foliage plant with lime-green-yellow leaves, generously patched in deep-forest-green. In summer, yellow colouration dominates, while deep-green patches are most prominent in cooler or shaded conditions. Almost an afterthought, pale blue flowers appear in spring to supplement the stunning foliage display. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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