Purple Cabbage Tree
Phormium cookianum purpurea (Purple Flax)
Phormium cookianum Purpurea is a variety of Flax that long and sword-like, purple leaves. This variety typically grows to 1.5 m tall and the same wide with a tidy and compact habit. Phormium cookianum Purpurea makes a fantastic addition to mixed plantings and borders, using in coastal gardens, planting to accentuate water features such as ponds and streams, or growing around pool and barbecue areas.
Hoheria populnea Purple Wave (Purple Lacebark)
Hoheria populnea Purple Wave, commonly known as Purple Lacebark, is a quick growing, small, NZ native tree that features colourful foliage. The serrated leaves have a green topside and a purple underside, and are held densely on slender branches. The tree becomes smothered in white, blossom like flowers through summer as it grows to 5 m tall and 2.5 m wide. Hoheria Purple Wave is commonly included in a mixed planting, planted as a quick growing shelter tree, used for screening, or grown as a specimen. It also suits being used in revegetation and riparian plantings.
