 Blechnum Silver Lady
A delightful "Dwarf Silver Tree Fern" that has pale lime green fronds that changes to silver grey as they age. The graceful arching fronds form a wide rosette of foliage that gradually as the plant matures develop into a woody... + Full article |  Camellia Growing GuideTop Class – Camellias.
The only problem I seem to have with Camellias is choosing which variety to plant. You will find when you hit the garden centre that the Camellia section is usually huge with rows and rows of plants and... + Full article |
 Coprosma Autumn haze This colourful new prostrate Coprosma from the Chatham Islands was selected by Tom Johnson at Totara Grove. ‘Autumn Haze’ has small glossy cream & green variegated foliage delightfully coloured with soft peach to apricot tones. The... + Full article |  Cordyline Caramel – Delectably Good!
It’s new and delectable. This spectacular new release to the market is a cultivar of our native cabbage tree. Starting life as a rich red colour, Cordyline Caramel then develops into a rich butterscotchy-chocolate colour when... + Full article |
 Dianthus Raspberry Swirl
The best display of flowers will be in early spring & will keep repeating right though out the season. Ideal for use as a front of the border perennial or in mixed containers. Plant in full sun for optimum flowering periods. Hardy. 0.3 x... + Full article |  Cyclamen
Cyclamen or commonly known as “Winter Florists” are well known as reliable plants in most households throughout the country.
Cyclamen make a wonderful alternative to cut flowers through the winter months. For between $10 and $15... + Full article |
 Harlequin Blue
Raised by Lynne Dibley and exhibited here for the first time. The first flat-flowering bi-colour streptocarpus, with yellow on the lower petals making a striking contrast to the baby-blue upper petals. A compact plant with masses of flowers.... + Full article |  Violas
Violas are garden favourites with many all over the world. There compact growing habit and ability to cover themselves in flowers continuously for months on end makes them a first choice garden plant. What’s even better is that... + Full article |
 Camellia Paradise Blush
Camellias are hardy well-known shrubs that happily grow all over the country.
Paradise Blush is a highly sought after relatively new introduction that will appeal too many as it flowers throughout the autumn months.... + Full article |  Say it with plants
Often when I see a plant it will remind me of a place, person or somewhere I have been. One of the things I love most about gardening is the giving and receiving of plants. I have many treasures in my own garden that remind me... + Full article |
 Daffodils
Daffodils are easy to grow and require very little attention. This Guide on growing Daffodils gives you advice on when and how to plant and take care of your Daffodils so that you will enjoy them blooming in your garden for many... + Full article |  Dianella ‘Little Devil’
Dianella tasmanica ‘Little Devil’
Description
A new form of Dianella selected for it’s distinctive red new growth and upright
habit. A further bonus is the striking display of deep cobalt blue berries after
flowering.... + Full article |
 A Great Shady Stunner
There are plenty or garden spaces where plants grow in shady planter boxes or pot collections – under the eaves, on south facing balconies, even in stairwells.... + Full article |  Fabulous Tulips
Tulip flowers grab your attention in spring every year with their
majestic and perfectly formed blooms. Talk to any florist and they will
tell you that tulips are one of the most popular blooms for bouquets.
Tulips are a bulb that is... + Full article |
 Versatile and Easy
For example, Canna Tropicanna® is one such plant; useful in both wet and dry places, this high impact perennial is loved for its vibrantly coloured striped foliage. Orange flowers are a bonus in summer.
Despite its subtropical... + Full article |  WOW factor plantings
Mass planted areas not only have impact but are generally very easy to care for. The trick is to choose low maintenance plants you know will do well in your location, and those which look good for most of the year.
Roses always look best... + Full article |
 Desire long lasting colour?Desire long lasting colour?
Flower Carpet® CORAL is a rose which has coral-pink single flowers with classy antique-gold stamens. Its petals don’t fade in the sun – on the contrary, they darken over time to a deep... + Full article |  Bulbs – Versatile Garden JewelsBulbs – Versatile Garden Jewels
Some say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, the same can be said about bulbs being the gardens best friend. Bulbs are the jewels in a gardens crown, no other plant can match them for vibrancy,... + Full article |
|  Acacia LimelightAcacia Limelight - KiwiGold® Plants In New Zealand
is a compact bushy Bamboo like Acacia, with delicate lime-mid green weeping foliage. This highly ornamental evergreen shrub is simply excellent when grown as specimen, in a pot or planter... + Full article |
 What does well in part shade?What does well in part shade?
will look after itself.
Cordyline Red Fountain™ scores well on all counts. It’s a basal branching variety which stays low and bushy (never more than a metre), forming in time a ... + Full article |  Low Maintenance Beauties Exist!Low Maintenance Beauties Exist!
, twenty years ago, landscapers and gardeners alike have included roses more and more in their planting schemes.
Cheaper and easier to care for than a comparable area of bedding plants, Flower... + Full article |
|  Dashing DahliasDashing Dahlias
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What is it with the start of a new year that makes you feel you have to try and deal with things you are a little ashamed of. For me the new year always starts with very real threat... + Full article |
 Which roses for your garden?Which roses for your garden?
. Which roses you choose will depend on what you want from them and how much time you are prepared to spend looking after them.
For those who want long stemmed blooms for picking, the hybrid tea roses are... + Full article |  Mass planted roses
To be worthy of mass planting a plant needs to look good for most, if not all, of the year, ideally with more than one attractive feature. The bigger the mass planting, the more confident we need to be that our chosen variety will...
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|  Hedging - your best for colourHedging - your best for colour
Extremely colourful, easy care, disease resistant and heat tolerant makes Flower Carpet ® the perfect cover up for unsightly areas or to simply beautify the garden. Just... + Full article |
 Hibiscus Be My Valentine
Huge (20cm) papery blooms, soft candy pink in colour with bold white borders & elegant white veining, highlighted by a prominent blood red eye. Half hardy. 1.5 x 1m
Soft candy pink blooms with bold white borders & elegant white... + Full article |  Privacy Issues ?
Living as close as most people do to the neighbours, there will always be a healthy demand for privacy hedging: consider the pittosporum as proof that fast and green is what people want.
Fairy Magnolia® BLUSH is an ideal...
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 Acmadenia Star Blush
‘Star Blush’ is a compact evergreen bushy NZ selection of this attractive South African, Cape Province species. It is not dissimilar to a heather in its growth habit. ‘Star Blush’ is covered from late summer with... + Full article |  ‘Next Generation’ Flower Carpet Roses
The latest development in the Flower Carpet® ground cover roses is the NEXT GENERATION series. Fifteen years of extra breeding have provided improved heat & humidity tolerance and disease resistance in an already...
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 How to care for groundcover rosesHow to care for groundcover roses
Everyone loves roses - it’s just that some people think they can’t grow them. They think roses require fussy spraying and expert pruning (false!).
Flower Carpet® roses, are super... + Full article |  Add Pizzaz to the Garden with TropicannaAdd Pizzaz to the Garden
, will add a touch of pizzazz to any garden. Able to cope with the difficult conditions Tropicanna is perfect to add sensational colour to dull or boring spots around the garden. To further enhance the garden it... + Full article |
Japanese Maples
Whilst Japanese Maples are a must in a Japanese-style garden, they can be incorporated in most other styles of gardens. Different varieties can be used together, or individual specimens can create a... + Full article |  Euphorbia Kakapo
‘Kakapo’ is a miniature martinii, only reaching 0.3m in full flower. This little gem has petite silver green foliage & a very compact well branched habit topped from mid summer with fresh acid green blooms with red highlights.... + Full article |
 Dichroa Round Blue
‘Round Blue’ is an exciting new bushy rounded selection of this evergreen Hydrangea relative selected by Glyn Church at Woodleigh Garden, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the key features of this selection is how the rounded... + Full article |  The Right Plant for the Right PlaceThe Right Plant for the Right Place
A garden that looks good all year round, with minimal effort, is all about good design and above all, selecting the right plants for the right places.
Whether you’re looking for something... + Full article |
 Create a Potted Focal PointCreate a Potted Focal Point
. This is a tough, high-performance pastel pink groundcover rose, flowering in profusion from late Spring right until late Autumn. Bushes are low, dense and compact and are ideal as a container plant.... + Full article |  Add Glamour with Canna'sAdd Glamour with Canna's
Tropicanna. Their variegated leaves, each slightly different, yield a multi-hued display that changes from burgundy to red to pink, yellow, gold and deep green with varying shades and intensities of... + Full article |
 Peony People!
One of the best things about my life is the wonderful people that are in it. It continues to amaze me at how many nice people are in the world and how lucky I am to meet so many of them. Plants often remind me of people and Peony Roses are... + Full article |  Wish you could grow roses
Everyone loves roses – yes they do - it’s just that some people think they can’t or shouldn’t grow them. In other words, if someone isn’t growing roses it’s probably because they think roses need a great...
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 Bring on the Tropical Feel
Canna Tropicanna® and Tropicanna® Gold’s striking foliage will give any garden a tropical feel even in milder climate gardens. Just add other fabulous foliage such Philodendron Xanadu, Cordyline, Draceana,...
+ Full article |  Sweet peasSweet peas
Sweet peas have been a popular garden plant since first being introduced into England at the end of the 17th century and the original variety, Cupani, is still available.
A burst of hybridizing at the end of the 19th century... + Full article |
 Two roses in one!
There’s another cycle, apart from the cycle of life, which affects plants. Ask anyone whose business is linked to horticulture, and they’ll happily agree that fashion is omnipresent.
Fashion affects what... + Full article |  White flowers for a sophisticated look
White flowers are the eternal favorites for those who prefer a sophisticated look and essential in a garden that can be enjoyed in the evenings, as they stand out in the moonlight.
Bred in New Zealand by Rob Somerfield of...
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 The Secret to an Awesome GardenThe Secret to an Awesome Garden
and know that they’ll look after themselves, but more importantly, they won’t look ordinary or utilitarian. Far from it, which is why you see them used both in public open spaces as well as... + Full article |  What will Look Stunning Year Round?
Bred in New Zealand, Red Fountain is a basal branching Cordyline which only grows one metre high. This in itself is a useful habit, especially if you’re planning to use these plants en masse to create broad sweeps of rippling ...
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 Charismatic Clematis
Classic, classy and charismatic are all words that can be used to describe Clematis and some of my closest friends.
The most common Clematis many will know is the Montana species. These have masses of blooms which range in colour...
+ Full article | Alpine WondersAlpine Wonders
Everywhere you go in the gardening world you meet passionate plant people. Doreen Mear is no different, a true consummate gardener extraordinaire. She gardens in the heart of Wanaka on “the proverbial Kiwi quarter... + Full article |
 Rose White RomanceRose White Romance
Where is romance without a rose some might say. Rose lovers never have to wait long for new and exciting varieties to come along to tempt them. The only problem they have to trying to make them fit into the normally... + Full article | |
Luscious LeucadendronsLuscious Leucadendrons
Colour Colour and more Colour is what springs to mind when I think of Leucadendrons. These somewhat underrated plants often seem to be over looked in the garden, why I don’t know as when they are in flower... + Full article | Delphiniums
Some say Delphiniums are the super stars of the perennial garden because when they are in flower they steel the show. These plants are easy to grow in the home garden and with little care will provide you with blooms for months.
Plant ... + Full article |
 Magnificent Magnolias
Late winter is the season when the deciduous magnolias are at their best. August seems to force these gorgeous flowers to open in a rush. The breathtaking sight of the large, tulip-like blooms perching on bare branches can send...
+ Full article |  Erica Cerinthoides Red
What a winter wonder this Erica is!
Bright red clusters of flower sit on the ends of tall slim stems in the bleakest months of the year.
A point to remember if you want to get good flowers again next year you need to prune the ... + Full article |
 Arabis Old GoldArabis Old Gold
Dark green foliage with wide gold margins. Forms a luscious dense mat that is topped with small white flowers. Looks great against black mondo grass.
Suitable for rockeries, borders, bank, paving, gravel gardens and ... + Full article |  Astelia Alpine Ruby
This plant should be on the catwalk with its rich ruby red foliage that is streaked with a shimmering silver. A close relative to A. Silver Spear Alpine Ruby is a hardy native hybrid that thrives in both sun and shade. Height and... + Full article |
 ORCHIDSORCHIDS
The orchid is a very diverse family of plants, with over 20000 catalogued species, it is the largest family of flowering plants. Most species are found in Asia. In one mountain alone, Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia, there are... + Full article |  Violas - Vibrant, Versatile and Vivacious Violas - Vibrant, Versatile and Vivacious
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So if you are you looking for something that is vibrant, versatile and vivacious? That flowers for months on end and is easy to grow? If the answer is yes then you need to look out for ... + Full article |
 Polyanthus - Pretty PolyPolyanthus - Pretty Poly
It’s hard to find something that can match the long flowering period of Polyanthus. Even with neglect they still seem to reward you with months of bright cheerful blooms.
Ideally, ... + Full article | |
 Phormium Black MagicPhormium Black Magic
A colourful new dwarf selection of Phormium cookianum selected by Vince Naus, Taranaki, New Zealand. ‘Black Magic’ has fine jet black spiky foliage highlighted by a fine lime green leaf margin – in time... + Full article |  Callistemon Great Ball of FireCallistemon Great Ball of Fire
Great Balls of Fire is a colourful Australian native Callistemon which has proved it's worth in NZ trials. Great Balls of Fire has a truely eye catching fresh flamingo pink new foliage with a great compact bushy... + Full article |
 Vinca Illumination
‘Illumination’ is a new elegant variegated selection of Vinca. The foliage has rich golden centres maturing to a soft cream with bold green margins.
Flowering tends to be intermittent throughout the season following a flush... + Full article |  Heuchera Georgia PeachHeuchera Georgia Peach
New 2009! This new stylish Heuchera is set to steel the show with its peachy orange foliage in spring and rosy purple tones in autumn and winter. It has creamy white flower spikes in summer that sit proudly above... + Full article |
 Hydrangea EmotionHydrangea Emotion
One of the most significant Nursery Stock introductions for years. Emotion originates from a Japanese breeder and rock guitarist, Ryoji Irie who made the crosses in Kyoto during 1994. He crossed double varieties from the wild... + Full article |  Hydrangea Birbeck BlueHydrangea Birbeck Blue
This dark stemmed improvement of 'Renate Steiniger', one of the most requested blue Hydrangeas, has an excellent habit & form topping mid season with excellent mid-blue blooms just lake the parent but carried on... + Full article |
 YUCCA ‘Banana Split’YUCCA ‘Banana Split’
'Banana Split' is a colourful new selection of Yucca recurvifolia. This funky little plant has broad golden yellow strap-like, weeping foliage highlighted with a soft grey green leaf margin. Plants... + Full article |  Sedum - 'Chocolate Sauce'‘Chocolate Sauce’ Sedum
‘Chocolate Sauce’ Sedum is best grown in full sun in all but the heavies of soils. Feed in spring with Osmocote. This flowering Perenial is attractive to bees.... + Full article |
 Buddleja Silver Anniversary
Silver Anniversary has beautiful liquid silver folaige and highly scented white flowers. An excellent neclar plant for butterflies. The flowers also produce no viable pollen. Silver Anniversary is a first rate contrast plant in the landscape,... + Full article |  Euphorbia Silver Swan
This exciting new compact selection from the UK forms a tight compact mound of elegant green & white variegated foliage. In late winter to early spring, the terminal flower spikes open to form a cloud of green & white variegated... + Full article |
 Daylilies - Herbaceous PerennialsDaylilies
Daylilies are easy care plants that have long flowering displays, they require little or no spraying for diseases or pests and will tolerate drought conditions therefore saving water.
No wonder they have become the worlds... + Full article |  Poinsettia
Poinsettias are the plants many people associate with Xmas. They come in varying colors red, cream, white and pink colors, with the red being most popular.
If well looked after Poinsettias will last for many years. When purchasing a... + Full article |
 Lavandula Blue CanariesLavandula Blue Canaries
This stunning recent release features intense deep blue flowers. This heavily divided mid green leaves give this selection a nice soft texture. ‘Blue Canaries’ is a heavy bloomer in the spring, and appears to... + Full article |  Acacia Bower BeautyAcacia Bower Beauty
‘Bower Beauty’ is the second generation of compact bushy Bamboo like Acacia, following on from Acacia ‘Limelight’, Acacia ‘Bower Beauty’ has the same excellent compact habit but with... + Full article |
 Metro Tahitian SunsetMetro Tahitian Sunset
A colourful dwarf growing sport of M. collina ‘Tahiti’ has elegant cream variegated foliage; the new growth is soft like deer velvet & highlighted in winter by bold pink-red flush on the new growth. To... + Full article |  Petunia Moonlight
The soft sunshine yellow blooms on this exciting new selection are really something. Tried & proven trailing Colourwave habit makes this new selection sure to prove a real showstopper for hanging baskets, pots &... + Full article |
|  Hebe Orphan Annie
Hebe Orphan Annie PVR
This Hebe has incredible unique foliage. The cream and green
older foliage really sets off the bright wine coloured new tips... + Full article |
 Shasta Aglaia
Shasta Aglaia
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Shasta Aglaia - Fantastic frilly daisyJust when you
thought you knew all about shasta daisies, along... + Full article |  Aeonium Schwarzkorf
From Liddle Wonder
Aeonium Schwarzkorf - Chocolate succulent
has star qualityPlants with rich, dark chocolate and plum
coloured foliage have... + Full article |
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Tulips
Tulips Known as "Queen of the Spring Garden" tulips provide us... + Full article |
 Loropetalum China Pink
Loropetalum China Pink
Full of Nice Surprises - It’s an ability to spring pleasant surprises that makes Loropetalum ‘China Pink’ such an appealing small shrub. The foliage is a classy, burgundy wine shade,... + Full article |  Centaurea Gold Bullion
Centaurea Gold Bullion
- Azure blue is one of the most appealing of all flower colours and when it's teamed with golden yellow foliage you have a winning combination. One of the... + Full article |
 Plumbago Royal Cape
Plumbago Royal Cape
Because Plumbago ‘Royal Cape’ grows to around two metres, it’s ideal as a background shrub, the perfect partner for lower growing shrubs, perennials and annuals. Some interesting... + Full article |  Dahlia Scarlet Fern
Dahlia Scarlet Fern
The best of these new dahlias have been bred in New Zealand, by internationally acclaimed plant hybridiser Dr Keith Hammett. One of... + Full article |
 Leucadendron Safari Sunset
Leucadendron Safari Sunset
In winter the red colours of the big bracts are particularly intense, but it’s pretty spectacular at any season. Useful for the background of a shrub border, ‘Safari Sunset... + Full article |  Coprosma Autumn Haze
Coprosma Autumn Haze
Coprosma ‘Autumn Haze’ is perfect for low maintenance gardens where the priority is avoiding work, but it also has enough class to justify including it in the gardens of those who love... + Full article |
 Camellia Classique
Camellia Classique
This makes it an exceptional dwarf shrub or, when planted as a close group, a bushy ground cover which is highly effective at preventing weeds as well as providing year round visual appeal with its... + Full article |  Viburnum Emerald Beauty
Viburnum Emerald Beauty
Mind you, the evergreen foliage alone is reason enough to grow this tall, cold hardy shrub, giving it year round good looks and making it stand out in any company. The dark green colour is an... + Full article |
|  Gazania Takatu Red
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Gazania Takatu RedSizzling deep red
flowers with a contrasting central eye of yellow, cream and... + Full article |
 Magnolia Little Gem
Magnolia Little Gem
Multi-talented small tree - Magnolia ‘Little Gem’ is one of those multi-talented small trees, as good at providing shelter and privacy as it... + Full article | |
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