Garden Designers love to use Arthropodium ‘Matapouri Bay’ because it has so many of the qualities they look for in a plant. It grows with the greatest of ease and it’s happy in dry, poor soils, just as it is in good soils that seldom dry out. It grows in sun or shade, under trees or in the open. It has foliage that looks good year round, as well as a great mid-summer flowering performance with masses of long stemmed, star-shaped, cream flowers. It can be planted and left to its own devices.

Garden designers know how to achieve a dramatic look by planting in big groups of one plant variety and Arthropodium ‘Matapouri Bay’ looks stunning when used in this way. Big groups of it make for the ultimate in easy-care gardening as no weeds can penetrate the mass of foliage once established. The only thing you might need to do is scatter a bit of slug bait around in spring - remember, you don’t need to pile it on, just a few pellets per square metre will do the job and be safer for wildlife. In a small area, you can make a striking foliage statement by combining Cordyline ‘Green Goddess’, Euphorbia glauca, which has lovely grey-green foliage and russet-red stems, and Arthropodium ‘Matapouri Bay’ - all of them native plants with great foliage appeal.