Sweetly scented, beautiful white flowers opening from velvety buds and deep green, glossy, small foliage make this tall shrub one to cherish. The flowers open in early spring, last for many weeks and cover the bush from top to toe. Even when not in flower 'Fiona' is one of the best evergreen foliage shrubs you can find.
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.
An attractive and useful evergreen shrub. Small holly like leaves bear small delightly fragrant flowers in late Winter early Spring. Favouring slightly acid soils but adaptable to most well drained soils in sun or shade. Superb specimen or container plant. 1.5 X 1 metre.
A compact tidy and colourful subject which is both quick and easy to grow. Striking bright white and green variegated leaves blend in well in any garden situation. Wind tolerant. Suitable for any good freely drained garden soil. Evergreen. Hardy. Grows 1.5 x 1m.
A very refreshing New Zealand native. Quickly forms a dense, small to medium pyramidal-shaped shrub with masses of small, fresh, green leaves. The foliage is a fresh green, looks attractive year round and is especially useful in floral arrangements providing body or background.
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.
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.
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.
Rhododendron Great Scent-Sation
Rhododendron vireya 'Great Scent-Sation'
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.
