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Hebe Margaret
Hebe 'Margaret'
An absolute picture from summer and into autumn when it's flushed with petite light-blue-violet flowers. They sit just above the foliage and contrast well against the small rich-green elliptical leaves. Margaret's a small grower and makes an exceptional container subject.
Eye-catching royal purple flowers with a bright magenta-red eye make Ohau hard to walk past when it's in full glory during late spring and into summer. Its foliage is attractive too - green leaves tipped purple on a compact plant. Great plant for new gardens; they grow rapidly and provide shelter for other plants.
This variety's particularly showy with a long flowering season. Large blue to lilac flowers are held on the top of branches from mid-summer and through to early spring. It grows to form a rounded bush to a metre tall with glossy, green oval-shaped leaves.
Hardy, evergreen and colourful all year round. This is a high contrast shrub with glossy leaves with green centres edged in cream and silver. From spring right through until autumn the bush features delicious light purple brush-shaped flowers. One of the very best hebes around for a spot of all-year colour.
Sidonie's something different when it comes to lavenders. It's free flowering, quick-growing and with Australian origins, tolerant of more humidity than many others. Its showy forked flowers are held atop long stems, and their blue-purple colouring is iridescent, especially during winter and spring. Its fragrance is also different - fresh and novel.
A compact leucadendron with flaming-red star-like flowers atop arm-length bracts from early in winter. A rapid grower suitable for any size garden and forming a nicely rounded evergreen shrub. Salignum varieties are favourite leucadendrons, providing vivid garden displays and colourful cut-flowers for indoor use. Plant in a sunny and well-drained spot, applying plenty of peat and acid fertiliser.
A small-growing form that has masses of yellow flushed red flower bracts in mid-winter. A popular shrub & excellent cut flower. Needs an annual trim. Has a dense growth habit. Sun. Wind & coastal tolerant. Well-drained soil. Evergreen. Grows 1.5m tall, 1m wide.
Showy in the garden and great indoors as a cut flower. A New Zealand cultivar and one that sets the standard for growing vigour, flower colour and floral performance. Bracts are a wine red in autumn and take on a pinkish cream flush towards spring.
Fantastic black and mahogany lacquered foliage. Yellow flowers mid to late summer. Happy in full sun-part shade in rich moisture retentive soil which does not dry out. Dies down in winter before erupting again the following spring. Grows 60x60cm.
One of the most impressive plants we've seen. Its glossy green leaves have velvet bronze undersides and provide a unique look year round. In summer large fragrant creamy white flowers impress. A mid-size columnar tree that's at home in a large patio planter when young, and as a grand garden specimen.
