Featured Plant: Acaena Purple Carpeting
A popular New Zealand native useful as both edging and ground cover. Fernlike foliage darkens with exposure to sun and makes a great contrast with silver foliage plants.
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Featured Plant: Ligularia Reniformis
An outstanding foliage plant with large kidney-shaped glossy green leaves forming an impressive mound. In mid-summer long stems of orange flowered daisies rise above the foliage.
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Featured Plant: Heuchera Obsidian
The glossy midnight hues of this dark foliaged heuchera won’t fade out during summer. Suitable as edging, ground cover or in containers.
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Featured Plant: Gazania Sahara
A tough, very hardy, low maintenance plant that produces regular flushes of double, bright yellow flowers throughout the year on grey-green foliage.
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Featured Plant: Euterpe Edulis
From Brazil, Euterpes are slender, tall trunked fan palms with prominent crown-shaft and graceful dark green fronds. They are easy to grow but suited to warm temperatures.
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Featured Plant: Butia capitata – Jelly Palm
An excellent feature landscape palm. The mature arching foliage is a silvery green with a hint of blue, grows 2-6m. Tolerant of full sun to part shade, frost to –5 degrees and coastal extremes.
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Featured Plant: Caryota ochlandra – Fish Tail Palm
The hardest of the Fishtail palms, Caryota ochlandra features a neat crown of gently tumbling leaves. It is an ideal choice for the conservatory or outdoors in a sunny, moist, warm-temperate climate.
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Featured Plant: Archontophoenix cunninghamiana – Bangalow Palm
A feather palm with a brown/gray trunk and green spreading fronds which provide an elegant display. However the soft foliage can get some damaged by wind.
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Featured Plant: Archontophoenix Alexandrae – King Palm
A feather palm with broad green fronds which are silvery on the underside and give an umbrella like display. This palm has a soft foliage and can get some damage from wind. It is semi-fast growing palm is ideal indoors or outdoors.
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Featured Plant: Lepidozamia peroffskyana
Native to Australia. The stem erect, to 4m (rarely) – 7m tall, to 80cm in diameter, is usually clad with persistant leaf bases. The leaves are fern like 1.5m – 3m long.
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