100 Best New Zealand Native Plants for Gardens
100 Best New Zealand Native Plants for Gardens

Author: Fiona Eadie

Publisher: Godwit

Published: 2001-06

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781869620691

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There are hundreds of species of native plants of all shapes and sizes suitable for the garden, but which are the best? Which will be the easiest to grow and the most likely to 100 Best New Zealand Native Plants offers a selection of readily available, hardy, versatile and attractive trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, ferns, vines and groundcovers. From the interlacing divaricates to the bold-leaved puka, from the flowing grasses to the structural lancewoods, this book suggests ways of combining different textures and forms to enhance your garden throughout the seasons.Including advice on care and maintenance, pests and problems, likes and dislikes and extensive landscaping suggestions, 100 Best New Zealand Native Plants is an indispensable handbook for novice gardeners through to landscaping professionals.

100 Best Native Plants for New Zealand Gardens
100 Best Native Plants for New Zealand Gardens

Author: Fiona M. Eadie

Publisher: Godwit

Published: 2014-09-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781775536512

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From trees to ground covers, ferns to hebes, an expert guide to the top 100 New Zealand native plants for gardens. Since its first publication, this book has been an indispensable guide for gardeners wishing to use New Zealand plants. Now extensively revised, it features inspirational and practical advice on 100 species that are easy to grow and maintain, across a range of climates. It lists each plant's likes and dislikes and gives sage advice for care and maintenace and for combatting pests and problems. It suggests how your soil can be best prepared for maximum growing results and gives creative landscaping tips for combining textures and forms to maximum effect. Engagingly written by the head gardener at Larnach Castle, whose gardens are world-renowned, it deserves a place on every gardener's book shelf.

New Zealand Native Ground Cover Plants
New Zealand Native Ground Cover Plants

Author: Lawrie Metcalf

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781927145616

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There is increasing enthusiasm for using native plants in gardens throughout New Zealand. This book is aimed at helping gardeners and landscaping professionals to select and care for native ground cover plants in order to create low-maintenance, good-looking and sustainable gardens. As with other forms of gardening, ground cover planting is most successful and satisfying when thoughtfully planned, with plants chosen to fit the design objectives and scale of the area to be planted. Hasty, ill-informed choices aimed solely at easy care can result in gardens that need to be removed a few years later because the area has become overgrown or the plants are unsuitable for the site. The authors show how a carefully considered use of New Zealand native plants as ground cover can reduce maintenance in gardens of all sizes while creating an aesthetically pleasing environment. They suggest suitable ground cover plants, based not only on the species but also on the continuing development of the range of hybrids and cultivars that are now available to gardeners. Accompanied by more than 100 colour photographs, these suggestions will help with your plant selection.

The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants
The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants

Author: Yvonne Cave

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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The islands that comprise New Zealand offer a unique and diverse flora that includes hundreds of outstanding garden plants. Fully 80 percent of these native plants are found nowhere else on earth. They also display an astonishing diversity, since they are adapted to climates ranging from rugged mountains to tropical lowlands.

Know Your New Zealand-- Native Plants
Know Your New Zealand-- Native Plants

Author: Lawrence James Metcalf

Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781869662059

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New Zealand has a unique and attractive native plant life that is of interest to everyone from gardeners and trampers to students of botany and ecology. In Know Your New Zealand Native Plants Lawrie Metcalf introduces a selection of the most interesting, iconic and important New Zealand plants, spanning latitudes from subtropical to temperate, and altitudes from sea level to alpine mountaintop, describing their natural history and distinguishing features. This title joins New Holland's hugely successful 'Know Your ...' series, of which the first two titles - Birds and Trees - both reprinted twice within two years of their release. Written for a family readership and with the novice in mind, the text of 'Know Your...' titles is light and easy in tone, with simple language, and is accompanied by full-page, full-colour portrait photographs.