| Description | Hebe
Hebe Emerald Green is a small, evergreen shrub. This beautiful plant is self shaping and forms a small bright green bun-shape with it's teeny tiny leaves. Emerald Green Hebe makes an excellent border shrub which also looks good in pots.
They prefer full sun with good watering during the warmer months.
Grows approximately between 40-60cm tall and wide | Common Mint, All types of mint are vigorous, fast growing, spreading perennials. You need to plant them where they have room to spread or plant them in pots. Mint plants send out runners just above and below the ground level, quickly forming large lush green patches. Planted in the right spot they make fantastic ground covers. Mint can grow anything up to 1m tall, but require regular trimming to ensure nice bushy, healthy plants. Although mint is hardy and will adapt to almost any spot in your garden, it prefers cool damp conditions in partial shade. Mints make good companion plants, repelling unwanted pests and attracting beneficial ones. The leaf is used in cooking, fresh or dried. Although fresh is usually preferred. It is used in a wide range of cuisine, including, teas, beverages, jellies, candies, syrups and ice creams. Mint is infamous for being one of the most common herbs to used when cooking lamb. And can be used in cooking, as a garnish, or in a sauce to accompany the dish. Mint was originally used as a medicinal herb to treat stomach aches and chest pains. In Ancient Rome, students were encouraged to wear wreaths of mint to "exhilarate the mind", And in medieval times, mint leaves were ground into powder and used to whiten teeth. Mint is also known to be used to treat insect bites.
4"/10cm pot size. | Myoporum parvifolium Fine
A popular and hardy native groundcover with fine, rosemary like leaves that makes an excellent weed suppressant
• Little white, star shaped flowers appear in the summer
• Very low maintenance
• Drought tolerant and prevents soil erosion.
6"/14cm pot size. | Viburnum odoratissimum
Sweet Viburnum is a fast growing, dense evergreen shrub that grows up to 4 meters tall. With distinctly large leathery oval green leaves and producing fragrant small white flowers in spring it makes an perfect ornamental addition to any garden, particularly as it sprouts beautiful red berries in autumn.
Good flowering hedge or screening plant. | Gaura lindheimeri "Butterfly Bush"
Butterfly Bush is a bushy, hardy perennial shrub with long graceful stems that bloom with pale pink flowers in spring-summer. These stems grow up to 1m long, but can be clipped back shorter, and sway gracefully in the breeze. The name of a popular variety, Whirling Butterflies, perfectly describes the way the plant resembles a cloud of butterflies when swaying in the breeze.
6" pot size. | Grevillea juniperina
Gold Cluster™ Grevillea has masses of spider like gold flowers in winter and spring, a great contrast to the green foliage. A lower growing and denser form, Gold Cluster™ Grevillea is great at out competing weeds and grows to half the height of other popular forms.
6''/14cm pot |
| Additional information | |
| botanical name |
Mentha, or Mentha Sachalinensis, or Garden Mint
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| height x width |
20cm x 1-2m
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| features |
Fine green foliage and pretty star shaped white flowers over a long period, fast growing
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| conditions |
Full sun to light shade in well drained soil, tolerant of light frost, sandy and front line coastal conditions
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| landscape use |
Rockeries, pots, hanging baskets, banks and slopes, a good soil binder,
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| botanical name |
Gaura lindheimeri
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| height x width |
1.2m x 1m
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| features |
Masses of sprays of beautiful white flowers opening from pink buds along the stems are borne from spring to autumn
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| conditions |
Full sun in light well-drained soil, cut back hard after flowering
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| landscape use |
Background planting, flower borders, color, general garden planting,
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