Big, glossy leaves make this handsome native shrub stand out in the garden. Its one of those bold subjects which is good to mix with other distinctive native trees and shrubs, such as spiky looking lancewoods, cordylines such as Emerald Goddess and Purple Tower, Clianthus Kaka King and Meryta sinclairii. When these are planted with fine foliage, lower growing native shrubs such as Muehlenbeckia astonii, which forms a cushion-like tangle of bronze growth, grasses such as Carex testacea and Chionochloa flavicans, bold flaxes and in the very foreground the orange-green Libertia peregrinans the result is a stunning piece of real Kiwi gardening.