pikopiko fern
The pikopiko fern is truly native to New Zealand and its species name is Asplenium bulbiferum, there are several variants of...
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Ground ferns are many and varied in terms of height/width they grow to, hardiness, colour, evergreen or deciduous, native or exotic so too...
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To many people one tree fern looks just the same as any other and we are often asked for a "ponga" and the requester expresses...
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Plagianthus regius - Ribbonwood
Is a deciduous NZ native growing to 5m tall x 4m wide. Slender tree with interlacing branches. Leaves are ovate and quite...
Is a deciduous NZ native growing to 5m tall x 4m wide. Slender tree with interlacing branches. Leaves are ovate and quite...
Platycerium bifurcatum - Staghorn
Staghorn as it is commonly called - an epiphytic fern that grows succesfully on ponga or trees feeding from the bark and...
Staghorn as it is commonly called - an epiphytic fern that grows succesfully on ponga or trees feeding from the bark and...
Pneumatopteris penningera
A tufted ground fern sometimes forming a small trunk. Not particular about soil type but needs a damp, sheltered position...
A tufted ground fern sometimes forming a small trunk. Not particular about soil type but needs a damp, sheltered position...
Podocarpus totora
Evergreen and NZ native.Will grow to 30 metres and has a straight trunk (that can get to about 2 metres) . Foliage is quite...
Evergreen and NZ native.Will grow to 30 metres and has a straight trunk (that can get to about 2 metres) . Foliage is quite...
Podocarpus totora aurea
Golden Totora. New Zealand native tree fern (but is a cultivar of the Podocarpus totora). Unique for its golden foliage and...
Golden Totora. New Zealand native tree fern (but is a cultivar of the Podocarpus totora). Unique for its golden foliage and...
Polystichum braunii
Rhizomes are erect and slightly scaly. Nice dark green fern which looks best after a season when the clump of the fronds...
Rhizomes are erect and slightly scaly. Nice dark green fern which looks best after a season when the clump of the fronds...
Polystichum proliferum - Mother shield fern
Rapid growing cold- hardy fern and it grows into colonies from plantlets that are produced at the tip of the fronds. Check...
Rapid growing cold- hardy fern and it grows into colonies from plantlets that are produced at the tip of the fronds. Check...
Polystichum richardii - Common shield fern
Polystichum richardii has very dark green, leathery looking fronds which reach 30 – 50cm in length. It is a very...
Polystichum richardii has very dark green, leathery looking fronds which reach 30 – 50cm in length. It is a very...
Polystichum setiferum - Soft Shield fern
Cold hardy and tolerates a wide range of conditions. Clumps and spreads out from there with fronds up to 50 cm on mature...
Cold hardy and tolerates a wide range of conditions. Clumps and spreads out from there with fronds up to 50 cm on mature...
Polystichum vestitum - Prickly shield fern
Polystichum vestitum is a very cold hardy fern. It’s long, dark green fronds, are almost prickly to touch and can...
Polystichum vestitum is a very cold hardy fern. It’s long, dark green fronds, are almost prickly to touch and can...
Ponga
Ponga as relates to tree ferns strictly relates to the Cyathea dealbata (Silver fern) but this word ponga is often...
Ponga as relates to tree ferns strictly relates to the Cyathea dealbata (Silver fern) but this word ponga is often...
Ponga pots and troughs
Ponga Pots are rapidly increasing in popularity as a stunning, natural garden or patio feature. Carved from NZ Native...
Ponga Pots are rapidly increasing in popularity as a stunning, natural garden or patio feature. Carved from NZ Native...
Ponga slabs
Machine sliced slabs of ponga - approximately 20cm thick, taken from the fat trunks of Dicksonia Fibrosa. These are great as...
Machine sliced slabs of ponga - approximately 20cm thick, taken from the fat trunks of Dicksonia Fibrosa. These are great as...
Prunus campanulata Okame
Crossed from P incisa x P campulata - broad oval shaped bush with small leaves that changes from light green to bronze and...
Crossed from P incisa x P campulata - broad oval shaped bush with small leaves that changes from light green to bronze and...
Prunus campanulata superba
Early flowering tree especially attractive to nectar seeking birds especially Tui Has profuse flowering of deep, rose...
Early flowering tree especially attractive to nectar seeking birds especially Tui Has profuse flowering of deep, rose...
Prunus Kiku-shidare-zakura
Weeping oriental oriental cherry with bright pink fully double serrated and frilled flowers. A mature specimen in full bloom...
Weeping oriental oriental cherry with bright pink fully double serrated and frilled flowers. A mature specimen in full bloom...
Prunus persica Cascade
Weeping Blossom Peach. Weeper with beautiful white double blossoms (like colour of glistening iceberg). 1.2m...
Weeping Blossom Peach. Weeper with beautiful white double blossoms (like colour of glistening iceberg). 1.2m...
Prunus Sato-zakura Kanzan
Flowering cherry that will grow 6m tall x 3m wide. Leaves are bronze colour in Spring and then go to green in the Summer and...
Flowering cherry that will grow 6m tall x 3m wide. Leaves are bronze colour in Spring and then go to green in the Summer and...
Prunus Sato-zakura Shimidsu sakura
Japanese derived cherry with double soft pink flowers in October to November. Small tree with wide spreading branches so...
Japanese derived cherry with double soft pink flowers in October to November. Small tree with wide spreading branches so...
Prunus serrulata Pink Perfection
Striking English raised cultivar. Full double flowers of glossy pink in bud becoming paler as they open and are carried in...
Striking English raised cultivar. Full double flowers of glossy pink in bud becoming paler as they open and are carried in...
Prunus serrulata Shirotae
"mount fuji cherry" is one of the most distinctive blossom trees. Snow white large fragrant flowers in October in...
"mount fuji cherry" is one of the most distinctive blossom trees. Snow white large fragrant flowers in October in...
Prunus subhirtella falling snow
Small weeping Cherry that produces single blush pink flowers in the Spring. Slender arching graceful pendant...
Small weeping Cherry that produces single blush pink flowers in the Spring. Slender arching graceful pendant...
Prunus subhirtella Pendula rosea
Weeping Rosebud Cherry. 1.8m standard Has slender willow like arching branches (in fact the tre itself looks like a...
Weeping Rosebud Cherry. 1.8m standard Has slender willow like arching branches (in fact the tre itself looks like a...
Prunus x Accolade
A hybrid Cherry with lovely spreading branches.Has semi double pink flowers displayed in pendulous clusters in the Spring...
A hybrid Cherry with lovely spreading branches.Has semi double pink flowers displayed in pendulous clusters in the Spring...
Prunus x yedoensis Awanui
Very erect and vase shaped tree has masses of fragrant single white flowers opening out of soft pink buds in the...
Very erect and vase shaped tree has masses of fragrant single white flowers opening out of soft pink buds in the...
Prunus yedoensis Perpendens
Weeping cherry with a broad mushroomed shape. Branches get totally covered in plae pink to white flowers in September-...
Weeping cherry with a broad mushroomed shape. Branches get totally covered in plae pink to white flowers in September-...
Pteris cretica
can get variegated species as well (see Pteris cretica variegata) but the standard one is a mid green easily grown fern....
can get variegated species as well (see Pteris cretica variegata) but the standard one is a mid green easily grown fern....
Pteris cretica variegata
Has distinctive white stripes down the frond as compared to its cousin Pteris cretica which has only green fronds. Hardy and...
Has distinctive white stripes down the frond as compared to its cousin Pteris cretica which has only green fronds. Hardy and...