Catalogue

Tree with conic crown and blue-green leaves. Red coloured new branches. Fast growing.

The sweet bay or laurel tree. Useful as a hedge or as a trained specimen. Aromatic, shiny leaves have culinary uses.

Grows to 20m. Hardy, deciduous tree with maple-like leaves and brilliant autumn foliage.

Umbrella tree. A large fast growing deciduous tree with lilac blue flowers in spring.

Evergreen conifer. Well furnished, wind resistant shelter tree producing light, strong, durable timber.

Excellent, fast growing ground cover. Good tight habit. Very attractive in rock gardens.

Very graceful tussock form grass up to 1m in height. A profusion of arching, feathery flower plumes buries plants under a rosy hued cloud.

Quick growing, graceful, small tree to 8m. Deciduous, toothed, ovate leaves and showy panicles of pink, crimped-petalled flowers in spring. Deep red berries on females.

var. Matapouri Bay. Most adaptable and appealing perennial plant with strap-like leaves up to 60cm. Graceful, arching 1m flower stems bear panicles of white starry flowers from early to mid summer. Great for mass plantings or groundcover under trees.

Tall, spear-like leaves with metallic tones and strong architectural form make this New Zealand's most striking astelia. Grows to about 1m tall and can spread to form a clump nearly twice as wide.

Broad, stiffly arching, green leaves up to 2m long are overlaid with a silvery sheen and often have reddish ribs.

Erect, russet tussock to 50cm with graceful, arching seed heads Jan-March. The fine leaf tips are blonde and curled, adding to the plant's distinctive appearance. Good filler or groundcover.

Mop shaped tussock to 30cm tall and 1m wide. Red brown or light green leaves. Fast growing, effective groundcover.

var. frosted curls. Very popular sedge that has the palest of green or straw-coloured foliage with curling blonde leaf tips. The leaves spread and swirl softly in low mounds. Fast growing, effective groundcover, 30cm tall and 1m wide.

Green. Graceful, arching foliage ranging from shiny green to bronze and brownish shades. Grows to about 50cm tall. Seed heads ideal for dried-flower arrangements. Good contrast species for mixed plantings.

Green leaves up to 1.2 m long. Wetland plant.

Large tussock up to 1.5m tall with weeping, yellowish green leaves. Good screen or filler, especially in wet ground.

Green or orange-green tussock. Leaves and culms drooping. Pendulous dark seed spikes on slender stalks Jan-April. Grows to 60cm or more. Good for growing under trees.

Dense, light green, fine leaved tussock with brownish to orange-green tips. Grows 50-60cm tall and flowering stems eventually elongate across the ground. Excellent ground cover or filler. Best foliage colouring is produced in full sun.

Handsome, robust tussock to 1m tall with 2cm wide leaves, green above, bluish below. Attractive, dense spikes of brown seeds.

Handsome bright green tussock with arching foliage to 1.2m. Closely related to C. secta. Useful species for waterside planting and very damp soils but will also grow on dry sites, in sun or semi-shade.

Small tree to 8m with flattened branchlets and masses of tiny, purple veined pea flowers. Dark pods with conspicuous orange-red seeds.

Specimen tree to 10m. Slender, juvenile form has zig zag branch habit. Adult leaves show darker main veins and a distinctive, marbled effect. Panicles of fragrant white flowers mid summer.

Heath-like, erect shrub up to 2m. Tiny leaves have white or yellowish down underneath. White flower heads.

Fast growing tussock with airy flowering panicles carried on slightly arching stems to 1.8m. This handsome plant grows happily in a range of conditions. Suitable for growing as a feature plant or in a group. Looks very attractive by water.

Not a real toetoe but a tall tussock, 60-75cm high. Beautiful, weeping foliage and yellow-green flowers in mid summer. Grows in most well drained soils, and stands cold, partial shade or full sun.

Striking, large tussock with attractive reddish colourings ranging from a brownish green through to copper turning red-orange in winter. Weeping foliage 1-1.6m high. Excellent for landscaping.

One of New Zealand's most beautiful small flowering trees. Stunning sight when covered with pink, pea-like, mauve-veined flowers densely packed in thousands of drooping racemes that almost hide the branchlets. Ideal for a small garden and modern landscaping.

Big cone pine. A very hardy conifer with bluish green needles and huge, ornamental cones.

Very hardy, small tree of dense bushy habit. Ideal for rockery and bonsai.