Nz Native Plants For Dry Areas
Festuca novae-zelandiae (Native Fescue)
Festuca novae-zelandiae is a NZ Native Fescue grass with delicate, tawny-coloured leaves up to 60 cm long. The leaves are rough to the touch and have sharply pointed tips. Flowering stems up to 70 cm tall are borne through summer. Festuca novae-zelandiae is commonly mass-planted on banks, included in modern gardens, or used to provide contrast with darker-foliage plants. A mass planting is the best way to showcase this plant.
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Pimelea prostrata Blue Peter
Pimelea prostrata 'Blue Peter', commonly known as Pinatoro or the NZ Daphne plant, is a mat-forming, NZ native, ground cover plant. It has small, blue foliage which becomes adorned with fragrant, white flowers in spring and results in white berries. This evergreen typically grows to 10 cm tall and 50 cm wide. Pimelea prostrata 'Blue Peter' is commonly used as a groundcover, added to coastal plantings, included in rock gardens, planted around outdoor living areas, grown on a bank, or positioned so it can spill out over a path or over a wall.
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