best hebe varieties
Choosing the best hebe varieties for your New Zealand garden means diving into a world of colours, textures, and year-round interest. Hebes are beloved for their beautiful foliage, vibrant blooms, and hardy nature—making them perfect for borders, hedges, pots, or feature plantings. Whether you’re looking for compact ground covers or striking shrubs, there’s a hebe for every garden style. Below, we introduce some of the best hebe varieties suited to Kiwi conditions, spotlighting several exceptional cultivars that offer both beauty and performance.
Hebe 'Wiri Mist'
Hebe 'Wiri Mist' is a compact evergreen shrub prized for its fine green foliage and masses of soft white flowers that appear from late spring through summer. It typically grows to 1 m tall and 1 m wide, making it ideal for borders, rock gardens or container planting. This hardy New Zealand-bred variety thrives in full sun or partial shade and tolerates coastal conditions, light frost and dry periods once established. 'Wiri Mist' adds texture and elegance to any garden setting.
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Hebe Orphan Annie
Hebe Orphan Annie is grown for its variegated foliage and prolific flowering through summer and autumn. Short flower spikes carrying purple flowers are borne amidst the lush and glossy, cream and green leaves. This NZ native typically grows with a rounded shape to about 50 cm tall and the same wide. Hebe Orphan Annie is ideal for including in a mixed planting, mass planting either as a groundcover or on a bank, adding to borders, including in cottage gardens, or planting around outdoor living areas.
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