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 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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Hebe Black Satin
Hebe Black Satin is a popular variety of Hebe due to both its colourful foliage and flowers. It grows as a rounded shrub carrying glossy, dark purple foliage with a green undertone. The foliage is adorned by spectacular sprays of light pink flowers through spring and summer as it grows to about 1 m tall and the same wide. Hebe Black Satin is a versatile plant that is often used in mixed and border plantings, or planted around outdoor living areas. A mass planting either on a bank or as a groundcover affords an amazing display with this plant.
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