Browsing items filed under: Shrubs × Hebe traversii Grows along streamsides and banks, South Island. Grows approx 2m high. Produces white flowers. Leptospermum 'Blossom' Cultivar Grows 2 metres high, produces large double pink flowers through winter and spring much loved by bees. Best in full sun and trimmed annually to maintain bushy growth. Leptospermum 'Pink Cascade' Cultivar Produces masses of pink flowers in early autumn and spring. Grows very vigorously in a semi-prostrate form spreading approx.1.5 m in width and reaches a height of 1m. Leptospermum 'Red Ensign' Cultivar This delightful cultivar produces masses of scarlet flowers in spring/early summer. Tolerates dry or a well-drained soil type, prefers full sun and some wind. Can be trimmed. Leptospermum "Wiri Kerry" Cultivar Coloured tea tree. Double red flower, 80cm high 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 excelsum var. psittacorum Poor Knights Island Kawakawa, Recently renamed as Piper excelsum Sub sp. peltatum Similar to mainland form with slightly larger leaves not damaged so much by insects. Macropiper melchior Three Kings Island Kawakawa. Recently renamed as Piper melchoir. Very strong thick leaves with exaggerated leaf veining. Melicytus alpinus Mahoe, porcupine Shrub Spiky drought tolerant sculptural shrub Melicytus crassifolius Thick leaved Mahoe Rigid dense small hard shrub. Melicytus novae-zealandiae Coastal Mahoe Attractive coastal shrub with large leathery leaves Metrosideros carminea Akakura, Climbing Rata Northland climbing Metrosideros preferring semi-shade. Metrosideros fulgens Found naturally from Northland to Westland. Climber or shrub with orange/red flowers late summer to winter. Prefers good soil in cool area when young. Metrosideros perforata Found from Three Kings Island to Banks Peninsula. White flowering, forms a compact shrub but will climb a wall or bank if encouraged. Ideal for containers. Muehlenbeckia astonii Found coastal areas of the South Island. Interlacing stemmed shrub growing 1-2.5m, makes ideal hedge. Very hardy. Myoporum laetum var. decumbens Prostrate form of ngaio form the Poor Knights Islands Can grow up to 2m high and nearly spreads as wide. Large fleshy leaves. Myrsine aquilonia Poor Knights Island matipou Attractive small heart shaped leaves. Tolerates most conditions and is ideal very hedging. Myrsine divaricata Weeping mapou A bushy divaricating/interlacing shrub giving excellent contrast in any garden. Olearia albida var. angulata Tanguru. Fast growing shrub found in coastal areas of the North Island. Grows 3-5m high. Produces abundant white daisy-like flowers. Ideal for coastal hedging. Olearia furfuracea Tree daisy found scrub and forest margins of North Island. Well-branched shrub growing to about 3m high. Produces clusters of attractive daisy-like flowers. Hardy coastal plant. « 1 2 3 4 5 »