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Cordyline Showoff (Cordyline stricta Showoff)

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Cordyline Showoff, also known as Cordyline stricta 'Showoff' or Narrow-Leaved Palm Lily, is a compact, upright shrub featuring glossy green leaves with purple hues. Reaching up to 2 meters tall and 60 cm wide, it's perfect for adding vertical interest to narrow spaces, containers, or tropical-themed gardens.

From $41.54

Suited to regions: Subtropical, Temperate
Plant type: Shrubs
Height: 2.00 m
Spread: 60 cm
Garden uses: Containers, Living areas, Parks, Pool areas, Specimen
Garden styles: Architectural, Backyard, City & Courtyard, Frontyard, Japanese, Mediterranean, Modern, Tropical

Cordyline Torbay Dazzler

Cordyline Torbay Dazzler is a variety of Cabbage Tree grown for its striking foliage and great form. The strap-like leaves are variegated with cream and green stripes, with new foliage emerging a prominent cream colour. It typically grows to 2.5 m tall and 1.5 m wide. Cordyline Torbay Dazzler makes a lovely specimen and is commonly planted in clusters, added to tropical gardens, included in mixed plantings, used to line a driveway or entrance, planted to soften a bland wall, or maintained in a container.

From $28.54

Suited to regions: All regions
Plant type: Shrubs
Height: 2.50 m
Spread: 1.50 m
Flowering time: Summer
Tolerances: Coastal, Hardy
Garden uses: Containers, Living areas, Parks, Ponds, Pool areas, Screening, Specimen
Garden styles: Alpine, Architectural, Backyard, City & Courtyard, Coastal, Frontyard, Japanese, Modern, Tropical
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Cordyline stricta

Cordyline stricta, commonly known as the Slender Palm Lily, features narrow, strap like, green leaves held on upright stems which gives a very lush...

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Cordyline Green Goddess

Cordyline Green Goddess is a smaller variety of the commonly known, Cabbage Tree, and features long, sword like, lime green leaves held on a small...

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Cordyline 'Can Can' foliage.

Cordyline Can Can

Cordyline Can Can is a colourful variety of the commonly known Cabbage Tree, and features pink and red variegated leaves. It grows with arching...

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Cordyline Red Star

Cordyline australis Red Star features gently arching leaves are borne as a crown atop a short trunk. It will reach 3 m tall and 1.5 m wide...

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Cordyline Broadsword

Cordyline Broadsword is a smaller variety of the commonly known, Cabbage Tree, and features broad, bright green leaves held on a small tree. It grows...

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Cordyline Lime Fountain (Lime Fountain Cordyline)

Cordyline Lime Foutain is a stunning, ornamental grass that features lime green leaves that cascade like a fountain from this clump forming plant. It...

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Cordyline Electric Star

Cordyline Electric Star is a hybrid variety of cabbage tree that features narrow leaves that are chocolate and green. It typically grows with an...

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Cordyline Black Beauty

Cordyline ‘Black Beauty’ is a dramatic evergreen shrub admired for its striking dark purple-black foliage. Perfect for adding bold contrast and...

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Cordyline australis (Cabbage Tree)

Cordyline australis, also known as the Cabbage Tree or tī kōuka, is a hardy and iconic New Zealand native. It features long, sword-like green leaves...

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Phormium tenax plant in a garden with green foliage.

Phormium tenax (Harakeke)

Phormium tenax, commonly known as flax or harakeke, is an herbaceous perennial that produces erect, green, sword-like leaves. Stems rise above the...

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Dianella Blaze

Dianella Blaze features broad and gently arching, bronze-purple leaves that are very showy. It typically grows to 70 cm tall and the same wide...

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Dianella Goddess

Dianella Goddess is a variety of the commonly known, NZ Flax Lily, and produces upright, strap-like leaves which are a rich, dark green with a blue...

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Dianella Wyeena

Dianella Wyeena is renowned for its variegated foliage which are dark green with a cream-coloured margin. This NZ Flax Lily grows as a tidy clump to...

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Phormium Purple Haze (Purple Flax Plant)

Phormium Purple Haze is a variety of Flax that produces long and broad, dark purple leaves. It grows with a tidy and compact habit to about 1.1 m...

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Cordyline 'Jade Fountain' plant.

Cordyline Jade Fountain

Cordyline Jade Fountain is a smaller variety of the commonly known, Cabbage Tree, and features long, sword like, lime green leaves held on a small...

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Phormium Moonraker (Moonraker Flax)

Phormium Moonraker is a variety of Flax that produces cream and green leaves, and grows with a tidy and compact habit to about 75 cm tall and the...

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Phormium Sundowner

Phormium Sundowner is a variety of Flax that produces long and broad leaves that are bronze, pink, and green. This variety typically grows to 1.3 m...

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Phormium Rainbow Queen (Rainbow Flax)

Phormium Rainbow Queen is a variety of Flax that produces long, sword-like leaves that are bronze-green with pink-red margins. This variety typically...

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Phormium Veneer

Phormium Veneer is a colourful and very popular NZ native flax that features striking orange and brown stripes. It grows as a very tidy clump to...

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Phormium Stripy Mist

Phormium Stripy Mist is a popular NZ native dwarf flax that features striking green leaves with a chocolate brown centre. It grows as a very tidy...

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Dianella Revelation plants growing in a garden.

Dianella Revelation

Dianella Revelation features flower stems that rise above the foliage through spring and summer to bear masses of delicate, blue flowers which result...

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Phormium Surfer Bronze

Phormium Surfer Bronze is a Flax variety that features chocolate brown leaves with a hint of olive green. It grows to 60 cm tall and wide in full sun...

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Phormium Jester (Jester Flax)

Phormium Jester is a showy variety of Flax that produces leaves that are striped with a wide, pink central band and a dark purple border. This...

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Phormium Pepe (Dwarf Flax)

Phormium Pepe is a smaller variety of Flax that produces narrow and sword-like, bright green leaves. It typically grows to just 45 cm tall and the...

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Phormium Yellow Wave (Yellow Flax)

Phormium Yellow Wave is a Flax that produces yellow, sword-like leaves. It grows to 1.2 m tall and wide in full sun on a well-drained site. Phormium...

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Phormium Chocomint

Phormium Chocomint is a popular variety of Flax owing to its colourful foliage which brown with green stripes. It grows to 1 m tall and wide in full...

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Phormium cookianum (Mountain Flax)

Phormium cookianum (commonly known as Mountain Flax or Wharariki) produces long and gently arching dark green leaves. This NZ native grows to 1.5 m...

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Dianella Breeze

Dianella Breeze, commonly known as Turutu, features spikes that carry delicate, blue flowers in spring. These are held neatly above the dark green...

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Phormium Rainbow Maiden

Phormium Rainbow Maiden is a variety of Flax that produces long leaves that are dark pink with a dark red-brown margin. This variety typically grows...

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Phormium Velvet Underground

Phormium Velvet Underground is a colourful NZ native flax that features striking grey foliage with pink stripes. It grows as a very tidy clump to...

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Cordyline Showoff (Cordyline stricta Showoff)

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