Browsing items filed under: Partial Shade × Full Shade × Free Draining/Volcanic × Heavy Clay Loam × Asplenium bulbiferum Hens and chickens fern One of our best-known and versatile ferns. Blechnum discolour Crown fern. Piupiu. Found throughout NZ usually in drier forests Corynocarpus laevigatus Karaka Handsome canopy tree found coastal areas throughout Northland. Cyathea dealbata Ponga, silver fern Well known symbol of NZ, grows in forests throughout NZ. Cyathea medullaris Mamaku, black ponga Tallest of the tree ferns Geniostoma ligustrifolium Hangehange Common, fast growing native shrub with glossy green foliage. Lobelia angulata Panakenake Creeping mat-forming plant found throughout New Zealand in damp areas producing delicate white flowers. Macropiper excelsum Recently had name change to Piper excelsum subsp. Kawakawa, peper tree. Found in abundance throughout the North Island. Attractive orange candle-like berries make quite a feature. Macropiper melchior Three Kings Island Kawakawa. Recently renamed as Piper melchoir. Very strong thick leaves with exaggerated leaf veining. Parsonsia heterophylla Native jasmine A climber found coastal areas throughout New Zealand with attractive slightly scented flowers through spring and summer. Peperomia urvilleana Found throughout North Island and upper South Island Coastal plant forming low clumps, fleshy stems and leaves. Attractive indoor or patio plant. Pisonia brunoniana Parapara, bird-catcher tree. Found on Three Kings and upper North Island. Large glossy green leave, grows up to 3m high. Rhabdothamnus solandri Waiu-atua, New Zealand gloxinia Small shrub found in shady areas with delicate flowers ranging in colour from yellow to orange. Rhopalostylis 'Chathams' Chatham Island Nikau The Chatham Island palm has broader fronds and is much more robust than the mainland nikau. Also will tolerate more exposed conditions. Please enquire re availability Rhopalostylis baueri var cheesemanii Kermadec nikau The Kermadec nikau has longer fronds, larger flower heads and darker seeds than the mainland nikau. Rhopalostylis sapida Great Barrier Island The Great Barrier Island nikau forms a more robust palm than the mainland nikau, tolerating more exposed conditions. Tecomanthe speciosa Three Kings Island climber Only one plant of this species is known in the wild. A vigorous twining woody climber with large tropical-like leaves. Todea barbara Found on off-shore islands and north of Bay of Islands. Attractive fern unfortunately becoming very rare due to forestry and development. Tolerates quite dry conditions. Uncinia uncinata Hook sedge This hook sedge is variable in colour ranging from dark green when grown in shade to reddish brown.