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.
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.
One of the best and most rewarding of all the ground-hugging bellflowers. From late spring it produces an outstanding show of clusters of vivid-violet-blue flowers. These last well into summer. An excellent ‘up front’ perennial that’s hard to walk past when in flower.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attractive year round with a neat conical shape and dense, short, leathery foliage in shades of steel-grey-blue, more pronounced in winter. Superior selection that leaves a bold impression anywhere a hint of cool formality is required. Particularly easy to care for; conifers virtiually look after themselves.
A compact form with soft feathery rich green, and a striking silver/white foliage during Summer & Winter. Ideal for mixed borders or as a speciman plant. Plant in semi-shade, any soil and will tolerate coastal conditions. Evergreen. Grows 1.2 x 60cm.
