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Cordyline 'Raspberry Fountain' plants with colourful pink foliage.

Cordyline 'Raspberry Fountain'

Cordyline 'Raspberry Fountain' is a stunning, compact variety featuring cascading leaves in vibrant pink and deep burgundy tones. Its elegant, arching form creates a striking focal point in NZ gardens, patios, and landscapes. Hardy and evergreen, it delivers year-round colour and texture with minimal care. Cordyline 'Raspberry Fountain' is perfect for adding a tropical or contemporary touch to gardens, borders, and large pots.

From $69.09

Suited to regions: All regions
Plant type: Shrubs
Height: 1.50 m
Spread: 1.00 m
Tolerances: Coastal, Wind
Garden uses: Containers, Living areas, Parks, Pool areas, Specimen
Garden styles: Alpine, Architectural, Backyard, City & Courtyard, Coastal, Frontyard, Japanese, Modern, Rock, Tropical
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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 $29.19

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
Cordyline 'Burgundy Spire' plants in garden with purple foliage.

Cordyline Burgundy Spire

Cordyline Burgundy Spire features narrow leaves that are a lovely shade of dark red with a purple overtone. These are held off upright stems and...

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Cordyline Showoff with green foliage growing by a shop against a black wall.

Cordyline Showoff

Cordyline 'Showoff' is a vibrant, clump-forming variety renowned for its striking, variegated foliage in pink, red, and green, which adds instant...

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Cordyline australis 'Red Star' plants with fabulous dark red-purple foliage.

Cordyline Red Star

Cordyline 'Red Star' is a popular evergreen plant renowned for its striking, deep red, sword-like leaves, which add a strong architectural form to...

From$21.21
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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 australis trees growing as a cluster.

Cordyline australis

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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Cordyline 'Broadsword' plants for sale at The Plant Company nursery.

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...

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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 'Electric Pink' plants in pots for sale.

Cordyline Electric Pink

Cordyline 'Electric Pink' is a bold, eye-catching plant with vibrant pink and burgundy striped foliage that adds instant colour to any New Zealand...

From$41.16
Bright and cheerful 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 to a height of...

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Cordyline 'Green Goddess' small trees.

Cordyline Green Goddess

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

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Cordyline stricta plants growing in their native setting.

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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Phormium tenax plant in a garden with green foliage.

Phormium tenax

Phormium tenax, commonly known as the NZ flax or Harakeke, is a flax plant that produces erect, green, sword-like leaves. Stems rise above the...

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A large Phormium 'Evening Glow' plant in a garden.

Phormium 'Evening Glow'

Phormium 'Evening Glow' is a variety of Flax that produces long and broad, sword-like leaves that are coloured various shades of pink and red with a...

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A large Phormium 'Jester' plant with colourful foliage.

Phormium 'Jester'

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

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Dianella Kentlyn

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

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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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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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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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A large and colourful Phormium cookianum 'Purpurea' plant.

Phormium cookianum purpurea

Phormium cookianum 'Purpurea' is a variety of Flax with long, sword-like, purple leaves. This variety typically grows to 1.5 m tall and the same...

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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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A Phormium 'Rainbow Chief' plant with colourful foliage.

Phormium 'Rainbow Chief'

Phormium 'Rainbow Chief' is a bold and colourful New Zealand native flax variety known for its striking arching leaves striped with tones of red...

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Dianella tasmanica (Tasman Flax Lily) plants with green foliage and blue flowers.

Dianella tasmanica

Dianella tasmanica, commonly known as the Tasman Flax Lily, produces upright, strap-like leaves which are a rich, dark green and have a lush...

From$18.55
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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...

From$19.88
Phormium 'Surfer' plants in pots for sale at The Plant Company nursery.

Phormium 'Surfer'

Phormium 'Surfer' is a compact New Zealand native flax admired for its striking green leaves edged with bronze and red tones. Its upright, arching...

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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 '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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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...

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A mass planting of Dianella caerulea 'Little Jess' plants with lush, green foliage.

Dianella 'Little Jess'

Dianella 'Little Jess' is a variety of NZ Flax Lily that bears spikes carrying delicate, blue flowers in spring above lush, mid-green leaves. Small...

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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...

From$23.87
Phormium 'Emerald Green' plants in a mixed planting.

Phormium 'Emerald Green'

Phormium Emerald Green is a dwarf variety of Mountain Flax or Wharariki, and produces leaves that are a striking emerald-green colour. This NZ native...

From$17.96
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