Spreading and clump-forming perennial that's a picture from spring and into summer. Lush fern-like foliage and prolific mauve-blue flowers with a low and spreading habit make for a useful ground cover. Its lacy appearance makes it a useful plant for softening hard lines and edges created by rocks, garden edging or paving.
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.
An unusual and distinct cultivar with compact neat and bushy growth habit. Particularly hardy except for new growth, will grow freely in sun or shade. This subject makes an ideal tub specimen. 2.5 x 2m.
Pseudopanax Gold Splash
Pseudopanax lessonii 'Gold Splash'
Showy multi-branched and bushy shrub with richly coloured variegated foliage; whorls of glossy leaves in splashes of forest green, lime and yellow. An impressive picture and indispensable in a modern landscape. Makes a good tub plant for a year or two when it's readily transplanted to the garden.
Showy multi-branched and bushy shrub with dark shiny purple to bronze leaves in whorls of five. Really looks a picture. Indispensible in a modern landscape as a feature plant or background. Makes a good tub plant for a year or two when it's readily transplanted to the garden.
Vireya rhododendrons are for adventurous gardeners looking for something different and dazzling. They're colourful, flower freely several times a year. They hail from the tropics and will do well through much of coastal NZ. In cooler areas they are often grown in containers and moved into sheltered positions in winter.
Vireya rhododendrons are for adventurous gardeners looking for something different and dazzling. They're colourful, flower freely several times a year. They hail from the tropics and will do well through much of coastal NZ. In cooler areas they are often grown in containers and moved into sheltered positions in winter.
A Mark Jury hybrid. Vigorous upright form and spectacular trusses of pale yellow to gold flowers, often lightly suffused with apricot. A tall bush for background planting. Prefers light shade and free draining acid soil. Protect from frost and drying winds.
Rhododendron Golden Charm
Rhododendron macgregoriae 'Golden Charm'
An outstanding Jury hybrid hardy and easy to grow.Trusses of small apricot to orange flowers set on a vigorous but compact shrub. Red stems and bronze leaf tones add to the charm of this choice plant site in well drained soil or container in light shade 1.2 x 1 metre.
