Plants for ... Hot & dry places
Chionochloa flavicans
Chionochloa flavicans
One of the most beautiful New Zealand grasses, both graceful and tough. In summer its toetoe blooms look great as they sway in the breeze and add air and grace to the garden. In the winter, it’ll withstand the coldest of conditions, though shelter from harsh winds enhances its beauty. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Choisya ternata
Choisya ternata
Always attractive with glossy, medium-green foliage looking good all year round. In spring the compact bushes are smothered in white blossom, rather like big orange blossoms. Hence the common name of Mexican orange blossom - it’s a native of Mexico. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Cistus lasianthum Yellow Fever
Halimium lasianthum 'Yellow Fever'
Late spring & summer colour! 3cm brilliant golden yellow flowers. A low-spreading and mounding plant that likes the sun & good drainage. Very hardy to heat, cold, wind & drought. Plant in mass, rockeries & general shubbery. Evergreen. Grows 50x90cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Coleonema Compactum
Coleonema pulchrum 'Compactum'
This is the green-foliaged form of the popular Coleonema Sunset Gold - same great features: an evergreen, low growing, fragrant-foliaged, free-flowering and easy care shrub. Myriad of tiny pink flowers from early in spring. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Coleonema Pinkie
Coleonema pulchrum 'Pinkie'
Slightly more upright form of coleonema that makes a great landscape shrub all year round, and especially showy in spring when it's simply a myriad of tiny pale pink flowers - truly an impressive sight against a backdrop of green foliage. This is one of those easy care shrubs that provides garden form, fragrance and colour. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Coleonema Sunset Gold
Coleonema pulchrum 'Sunset Gold'
A one-time New Zealand "Shrub of the Year", and still a winner. A low, graceful shrub with bright golden foliage all year round, and a bonus: pink starry flowers abound in winter and spring. Incredibly versatile, Sunset Gold's a standard setter in gardens, borders and patio pots. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Convolvulus cneorum
Convolvulus cneorum
A delightful low-growing and compact shrub with silky silver foliage. Over summer, small pink buds open to trumpet-like white flowers with a hint of pink. Thrives in dry and exposed sites and a rewarding choice for planting among nooks and crannies in rock gardens and for cascading over walls. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Cordyline Green Goddess
Cordyline kaspar 'Green Goddess'
Very widely used anywhere that a combination of grace and structure is required. A clumping plant with sword-like rich green foliage from the base. Excellent evergreen for containers and as a patio specimen. Cream flower clusters appear from mid-summer followed by deep-blue fruit. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Echium fastuosum
Echium fastuosum
An evergreen perennial that flowers its heart out from spring to summer. It grows rapidly to form a multi-branched bush with grey-green leaves. Large, 30cm, intense blue flowers stand high above the foliage to make a brilliant garden display. Flowers intrigue up close, and the bush is fantastic viewed from afar. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Eriostemon Cascade of Stars
Eriostemon buxifolia 'Cascade of Stars'
A stunning small and compact rounded shrub that's absolutely smothered with pretty pink flower buds in winter and on through spring. As the springtime weather warms, these open to a dazzling display of sparkling star-shaped white flowers. A fantastic sight that needs to be seen to be believed. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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