The first five years or so this tree grows slowly, it then speeds up to become one of the fastest of conifers both for height and timber volume. This very handsome, easily grown and disease-resistant tree produces ornamental, violet-purple cones e... (Click for more details)

Trusses of large, saucer-shaped flowers, which vary in colour from almost white to light blue-mauve, are borne profusely from April until September, offset by large greyish-green, rather felted leaves. These completely frost hardy abutilons do wel... (Click for more details)

This frost hardy plant is surely the most desirable of all mallow relatives. Large, bowl-shaped pale to deep purple flowers, with the occasional white flowered form, from late spring to summer over a foil of felted grey-green leaves. (Click for more details)

The "Aroma Doble" or "Golden Wattle" grows very quickly reaching 4-5m in five to six years. Flowering very early, it produces cylindrical clusters of fragrant golden-yellow flowers from February to April. (Click for more details)

This attractive, hardy, small native Australian tree bears sprays of very delicate feather-like bipinnate foliage and impressive heads of countless fluffy, very fragrant, creamy-yellow blossoms. Although it can grow very large in New Zealand and ... (Click for more details)

Probably the hardiest of all acacias, this drought-tolerant evergreen produces profuse, fragrant, bright golden yellow, spherical, fluffy flower-heads, which are produced in early spring. This is probably the most unusual of all acacias as the nam... (Click for more details)

One of the hardiest mimosas with thin, strap-shaped, willow-like leaves and dense sprays of fragrant, light lemon, fuzzy flowers in spring and summer. This little beauty is called Wirilda in Australia. (Click for more details)

This previously unreleased plant has romped around our "Chilean garden" here since we collected it from Chiloe Island, Chile, in 1994.(RB94002) Plum-sized, spiky, brown 'toffee apples' stand erect above a carpet of attractive, d... (Click for more details)

This attractive, bushy, round-crowned deciduous tree bears creamy white flowers and red fruit, and glossy bright green leaves, with toothed margins, that turn a flaming red or yellow in autumn. The thin pale bark is smooth at first but becomes fis... (Click for more details)

This rarely-grown New Zealand relative of our UK "Cow Parsley" is a large plant with handsome tussocks composed of dense clusters of sharply-pointed, sword-like, yellowish-green leaves, and bearing huge, impressive, broad heads of golden... (Click for more details)