Plants for ... Hot & dry places
Leucadendron Tokyo Gold
Leucadendron stobilinum 'Tokyo Gold'
Stunning butter yellow bracts carried high on long reddish stems, a must for vase or floral art work. A strong vigorous growing plant which is hardy to most garden situations. Large waxy leaves give the plant a shimmering appearence all year round. Sensational. 1.2 x 1.2 metre. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Leucanthemum Sparkles
Leucanthemum hosmariense 'Sparkles'
This delightful little compact plant has silvery leaves and large striking white flowers with prominent yellow centres. They appear continuously from early in spring, right through summer and well into autumn - at least nine months of the year. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Lomandra longifolia
Lomandra longifolia
Easily adaptable tufty tussocky grass like lily.Evergreen strap like leaves give rise to fragrant creamy flower spikes in spring.Bird and butterfly attracting, all soil types full shade to part sun rockery or container plant. Stunning soil binder. Grows 60x30cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Olea Rakino
Olea europaea 'Rakino'
Rakino's our preferred garden choice providing both ornamental and fruiting benefits. It's a shapely, small, open, tree suitable for both inland and coastal situations. A prolific summer fruiter, its flavoursome fruit is ideal for preserving. Try mixing with other handsome evergreen fruiting plants such as Meyer lemon and Feijoa. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Pachystegia insignis
Pachystegia insignis
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. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Phormium Black Rage
Phormium 'Black Rage'
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. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Phormium cookianum
Phormium cookianum
A superb species, one of the hardiest and the most striking. Long arching green leaves all year round, and 2 metre long flower stalks over summer - particularly attractive to native birds. Use as a 'groundbreaker' in new gardens, en masse on banks. Foliage and flowers are great for floral artwork. Grows 1 x 1.2 metres. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Phormium Evening Glow
Phormium 'Evening Glow'
Beautiful glossy rich red with darker red 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 x 75 cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Phormium Merlot
Phormium 'Merlot'
A versatile and distinguished wine-red architectural plant with a distinctive black leaf margin and midrib. Silver-grey leaf under side further highlight this slection of our native flax. Plant in full sun or part shade. Tolerant of dry spells. Grows 1.8m X 80cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Phormium Platts Black
Phormium cookianum 'Platts Black'
A stunning non-fading rich, dark-purple dwarf flax. It's an accent plant; proud, with a tidy and broad clumping habit that's at home in garden or pot - where it grows quickly to fill a spot or gap. En masse it's great for landscape use, new gardens and erosion control. Summer flowers attract native birds. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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