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Mature size: 1m x 1.2m Soil: Dry/Moist/ Wet Sunlight: Full sun Chionochloa rubra, commonly known as Red Tussock, is a striking New Zealand native tussock prized for its rich bronze to reddish foliage that provides year-round colour and texture. Naturally occurring in wetlands, alpine valleys and open grasslands, it is an excellent choice for restoration projects, riparian margins and native landscapes. Red Tussock thrives in moist soils but is adaptable to a wide range of conditions once established.
Mature size: 0.5m x 1m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Muehlenbeckia axillaris is a hardy New Zealand native groundcover that forms a dense, spreading mat of wiry stems and small rounded leaves. It is ideal for rock gardens, retaining walls, slopes, between pavers, and erosion control. This low maintenance plant thrives in full sun to partial shade and is highly tolerant of coastal and dry conditions.
Mature size: 6m x 10m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Griselinia littoralis is a hardy New Zealand native evergreen tree found naturally from coastal areas to mountain forests throughout the country. It forms a dense, bushy tree with attractive glossy green foliage, making it one of New Zealand's most popular plants for hedging, shelter belts, screening, riparian planting and landscape projects. Fast growing and adaptable, Griselinia thrives in a wide range of soil types and growing conditions, including coastal environments. Mature trees can reach up to 20 metres in height, although they are often kept smaller through trimming and hedge maintenance.
Mature size: 0.75m x 0.75m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun Veronica (was Hebe) Icing Sugar is a hardy New Zealand native evergreen shrub valued for its flower and attractive foliage. It forms a dense, rounded shrub that is ideal for hedging, borders, mass planting, and native landscaping where consistent structure and low maintenance are required. It performs well in coastal, exposed, and inland environments once established and provides reliable year-round greenery in the garden or landscape.
Mature size: 50cm x 50cm Soil: Dry to Moist, Well drained Sunlight: Full sun Carex comans 'Green' is a graceful New Zealand native ornamental sedge prized for its soft, flowing green foliage and elegant cascading habit. Its fine leaves create year-round movement and texture, making it an excellent choice for contemporary gardens, native landscapes, commercial plantings, and large-scale restoration projects. With its tidy, evergreen appearance, Green Sedge provides a natural softness that complements both native and exotic planting schemes.
Mature size: 0.4m x 0.4m Soil: Dry Sunlight: Full Sun Festuca actae, commonly known as Blue Tussock, is a hardy New Zealand native tussock grass valued for its fine blue-grey foliage and upright clumping habit. It is an excellent choice for naturalistic landscapes, coastal plantings, riparian restoration, and low-maintenance native gardens. Blue Tussock provides year-round texture and colour while tolerating wind, frost, and dry conditions once established. It is ideal when planted in groups or mixed with other native grasses and sedges.
Mature size: 6m x .5m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Dodonaea viscosa Purpurea, commonly known as Purple Akeake, is a fast-growing New Zealand native shrub or small tree valued for its purple foliage, in winter changing darker purple still. It is excellent for hedging, shelter belts, screening, coastal planting, and adding year-round colour to native and contemporary gardens. It tolerates wind, dry conditions, and coastal exposure once established.
Mature size: 0.2 x 1m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Coprosma 'Hawera' is a compact New Zealand native shrub valued for its dense, tidy growth and attractive fine foliage. Naturally hardy and easy to maintain, it is an excellent choice for low hedges, borders, mass planting and modern native gardens. Thriving in full sun to partial shade, this versatile shrub tolerates wind, coastal conditions and dry periods once established, making it ideal for both residential landscapes and large-scale planting projects.
Mature size: 1m x 1.2m Soil: Dry/Moist/Well Drained Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Phormium Cookianum Purple is a striking New Zealand flax with graceful arching foliage in rich purple tones. It is ideal for feature planting, borders, mass landscaping, and coastal gardens. Hardy and low maintenance, it thrives in full sun to partial shade and adapts well to a wide range of soil conditions.
Mature size: 31m x 1m Soil: Well drained to dry Sunlight: Full sun Chionochloa rigida, commonly known as Snow Tussock, is a hardy New Zealand native tussock grass found naturally throughout the South Island high country. It forms graceful clumps of fine blue-green foliage with tall, elegant flower stems during summer, making it an excellent choice for native landscapes, lifestyle blocks and large-scale restoration projects.Adapted to exposed conditions, Snow Tussock is drought tolerant once established and thrives in full sun with well-drained soils.
Mature size: 60cm x 60cm Soil: Dry to Moist, Well drained Sunlight: Full sun / Partial shade Carex testacea is a hardy New Zealand native sedge known for its fine, arching foliage that develops attractive bronze and copper tones throughout the year. It is an excellent choice for native gardens, borders, mass planting, and restoration projects, providing year-round colour and texture with minimal maintenance. Well suited to both residential landscapes and large-scale revegetation projects, this adaptable sedge performs well in a range of conditions.
Mature size: 5m x 2m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Cordyline australis 'Purpurea' is a striking purple-leaved selection of New Zealand's iconic Cabbage Tree (Tī Kōuka). It forms a strong upright trunk topped with dramatic burgundy to deep purple sword-like foliage, making it an outstanding feature tree for modern landscapes, native gardens, and commercial plantings. Hardy and adaptable, 'Purpurea' thrives in coastal, inland, windy and exposed conditions. It is suitable for feature planting, shelter belts, riparian projects, and lifestyle blocks, while providing year-round colour and architectural appeal. Mature trees produce fragrant white flower clusters followed by berries that attract native birds.
Mature size: 10m x 3m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Pittosporum tenuifolium, commonly known as Black Matipo or Kōhūhū, is a fast growing New Zealand native evergreen tree with attractive glossy green foliage and distinctive dark stems. It is one of the country's most popular plants for hedging, shelter belts, screening, riparian planting, and large scale landscape projects. Highly adaptable and easy to grow, Black Matipo thrives in a wide range of conditions, including exposed, coastal, and inland sites. It responds well to regular trimming, making it an excellent choice for formal hedges, privacy screens, and revegetation projects.
Mature size: 4m x 6m Soil: Dry/Moist/Well Drained Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Podocarpus totara 'Matapouri Blue' is a striking New Zealand native cultivar, valued for its attractive blue green foliage and naturally upright growth habit. Hardy and easy to grow, it is ideal for hedging, shelter belts, specimen planting, lifestyle blocks, and large scale landscaping projects.
Mature size: 1m x 1m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Veronica (was Hebe) subalpina is a hardy New Zealand native evergreen shrub valued for its compact, naturally tidy growth habit and strong performance in exposed environments. It forms a dense shrub that is well suited to hedging, shelter planting, borders, and native landscaping where durability and low maintenance are important. Naturally adapted to alpine and subalpine conditions, it tolerates wind, frost, and poor soils once established and provides reliable year-round structure in the landscape.
Mature size: 1m x 1m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Veronica (was Hebe) Oratia Beauty is a compact New Zealand native shrub produces a tidy, rounded form that makes it ideal for borders, mass planting, hedging, and low-maintenance native gardens. Highly adaptable, it performs well in coastal, exposed, and inland environments once established .
Mature size: 1mx1m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full sun / Partial shade Anemanthele lessoniana, commonly known as Wind Grass, is a graceful New Zealand native ornamental grass prized for its fine arching foliage and beautiful bronze, copper, and golden tones. Its delicate seed heads dance in the breeze, adding movement and texture to gardens throughout the year. Wind Grass is ideal for mass planting, borders, lifestyle blocks, and restoration projects, thriving in a wide range of conditions. Performs best in full sun to partial shade in well-drained soils. Wind Grass is hardy, tolerates dry conditions once established, and develops its richest foliage colours with good sunlight.
Mature Size: 3m x 2m Soil: Dry / Wet / Moist Sunlight: Full sun / Partial shade Phormium tenax, commonly known as Flax, or Harakeke. A striking large flax that forms robust clumps of broad, vibrant green leaves. Beyond its ornamental appeal, it serves as an exceptional low shelter and erosion control solution. With nectar in mid to late Summer it attracts and feeds a variety of pollinators and birds. Thrives in diverse environments from swampy areas to coastal regions. Very hardy.
Mature size: 2m x 4m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun Veronica (was Hebe) stricta is a vigorous New Zealand native shrub with upright growth, narrow foliage, and attractive white to pale lilac flower spikes. An original form of hebe found in the North island and top of the South. It is an excellent choice for shelter belts, riparian planting, native restoration projects. Hardy and fast growing, it thrives in a range of conditions.
Mature size: 4m x 2m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Discaria toumatou, commonly known as Matagouri, is a hardy, deciduous New Zealand native shrub recognised for its distinctive interlacing thorny branches. Naturally found throughout the South Island, it thrives in dry, exposed environments and is an excellent choice for native restoration, shelter planting, stock exclusion, and low maintenance landscapes. In spring, small greenish-white flowers appear along the stems, providing nectar for native insects, followed by small seed capsules. Its dense branching habit creates valuable habitat for native wildlife while also acting as an effective natural barrier.
Mature size: 0.2 x 1m Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Coprosma brunnea, commonly known as Brown Coprosma, is a distinctive New Zealand native shrub with fine, interlacing bronze-brown branches that create year-round texture and architectural interest. Its compact habit makes it ideal for rock gardens, borders, coastal planting and native landscapes. Bright blue berries attract birds and gecko. Exceptionally hardy and tolerant of wind, dry conditions and poor soils once established, Brown Coprosma is an excellent low-maintenance choice for both residential gardens and restoration projects.
Mature size: 3m x 2cm Soil: Dry/Moist Sunlight: Full sun Carmichaelia odorata is a hardy native broom found naturally throughout much of New Zealand. Its distinctive green, almost leafless stems carry out photosynthesis, allowing it to thrive in exposed, dry conditions where many other plants struggle. During spring, it produces clusters of small fragrant white flowers that attract native pollinators. Compact and resilient, it is well suited to restoration projects, native gardens, shelter planting and erosion-prone sites.
Mature size: 5m x 8m Soil: Dry/Moist/Well Drained Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Sophora microphylla, commonly known as Small Leaved Kōwhai, is one of New Zealand's best known native trees, producing masses of brilliant yellow flowers that attract tūī, bellbirds, and other nectar-feeding birds and insects. It is ideal for gardens, shelter planting, lifestyle blocks, and revegetation projects.
Mature size: 2m x 5m Soil: Dry/Moist/Well Drained Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Pseudopanax arboreus, commonly known as Five Finger, is a fast growing New Zealand native tree with lush, glossy green foliage and an attractive upright habit. It is widely used for native gardens, shelter planting, revegetation projects, and as a feature tree. Frost tender whilst young, becomes hardy and easy to grow, it thrives in full sun to partial shade and adapts well to a range of soil conditions
Mature size: 0.7m x 1m Soil: Dry/Moist/Well drained Sunlight: Full Sun/Partial Shade Poa cita, Silver Tussock is a distinctive New Zealand native tussock grass with fine silver-blue foliage that adds texture and movement to the landscape. It is ideal for mass planting, dry gardens, restoration projects, and contemporary landscapes. Hardy and drought tolerant once established, it performs best in full sun and well drained soils.