Astelia Westland

This hardy evergreen Astelia with its stunning stiffly arched reddish bronze leaves has all year round appeal.  Its easycare, compact habit and colour make it compatible with all modern home decor and garden landscapes.  Astelia Westland is a fabulous foliage plant ideal for mass or container planting alongside Euphorbia Kea and Tui, Cabbage Trees, Scleranthus or other foliage of this nature.  It can tolerate most climatic situations throughout New Zealand, best suited to partial shade in good soils.  This plant is approximately two years old when it reaches the garden centre and will double in size over the next two years eventually growing to a height of 1 m x 1 m.

This excerpt appeared in The Press newspaper March 2008:
Those who want a plant with a difference in the garden might like to try Astelia nervosa Westland.  A cultivar of the 13 species recorded in New Zealand, this astelia is compact, with rusty, gold, silver and bronze arching leaves.  Stylish in form, it is suited to mass planting in amost all garden from city balconies to suburban beds and borders, coastal sites and rockeries.  It looks particularly spectacular planted amongst schist and stone.  While it remains relatively small in a pot, such as at the front door, once freed in the garden, it can reach 1m by 1m.  Its tolerance is high ranging from the harshest Canterbury frosts to pounding coastal winds.  This astelia needs very little attention.  Astelia nervosa Westland is now available as a Hot n Dry Solutionz in most local garden centres.

Mature Size

Main Solutionz Category

• Hot ‘n’ Dry Solutionz

This Plant also fits into these categories:

• Sun ‘n’ Shade Solutionz
• Container ‘n’ Foliage Solutionz
• Hardy ‘n’ Evergreen Solutionz
• Easy Care 'n' Native Solutionz
• Structured Solutionz