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Astelia Westland

This hardy evergreen Astelia with its stunning stiffly arched reddish bronze leaves has all year round appeal.

This evergreen has dense bronze foliage with masses of wine red toothbrush like flowers and is able to tolerate extremes in hot, dry weather conditions. It is ideal for weed suppressing, spilling over a wall or cascading down a bank.

Cistus Bennetts White

It has dark green leaves and large, white paper like flowers with a yellow centre (sometimes called the Poached Egg flower) It is tolerant to extremes in heat and cold and will grow in most free draining soils.

Convolvulus Cneorum

Convolvulus Cneorum is a prolific flowering, low growing shrub. The clean silver foliage covers the plant all year round and the cup shaped white flowers open in late spring and continue throughout the summer and autumn months.

Cotinus Royal Purple

This deciduous tree, commonly known as the purple smoke bush, is renowned for its incredible, deep claret-purple foliage from spring and through summer. Mid-summer sees a display of pinky-mauve flowers at the foliage tips making it a superb back ground planting in modern home courtyards and gardens.

Lavender Avonview

With masses of deep purple flowers Lavender Avonview it is ideal for cottage gardens and borders. It performs best in full sun and responds well to regular pruning. Lavender Avonview is an appealing lavender with its long stemmed flowers and it is easily shaped with a little pruning, making it a great choice for a hedge.

Lavender Bee Brilliant

Bred for its compact habit and prolific flowering, this evergreen Lavender produces an abundance of dense rich dark purple flowers from early spring through to late summer.

Lavender Hidcote Blue

This beautiful English lavender has a compact habit and produces a dense mass of short stemmed blooms with dark blue button like flowers from late spring into the summer months.

Lavender Pukehou

Vibrant bright purple flowers cover the plant and is ideal for hedging, looks great in a decorative pot, mass planted or as a general garden plant. It performs best in full sun and responds well to regular pruning.

Lavender Stoechas Major

One of the best lavenders available produces an abundance of rich dark purple flowers and is ideal for cottage gardens. It performs best in full sun and responds well to regular pruning.

Mt Tamborintha

With pale green grey foliage producing masses of red to cream spider-like flowers it is able to tolerate dry and exposed conditions. It is best suited planted in full sun, in well-drained soils along with Lavenders, Cistus and Hebes.

Nandina Firepower

Renowned for its contrasting foliage which changes from pale lime green and yellow in spring to vivid pinks and reds then to rich deep red tones in autumn. For maximum colour changes it needs full sun and free draining soils but avoid windy and exposed positions.