flowering evergreen trees
If you’re looking to create a lush, vibrant garden that shines year-round, flowering evergreen trees are the perfect solution. These versatile trees not only keep their leaves throughout every season, providing essential structure and privacy, but they also burst into colourful blooms—often at times when other garden plants are dormant. Whether you’re landscaping a large section, seeking a statement feature for your front yard, or searching for flowering evergreens ideal for smaller spaces, there are plenty of beautiful options to explore right here in New Zealand.
Lagunaria patersonia
Lagunaria patersonia, commonly known as the Primrose Tree, is an attractive, evergreen tree featuring lovely flowers. The showy, single flowers are produced from summer through autumn and start out pink but gradually fade to white. They are great for attracting birds and bees and are complemented with lush, olive-green foliage as it grows to 10 m tall and 6 m wide though. Lagunaria patersonia is commonly grown as a specimen, maintained in a courtyard or cottage garden, added to a mixed planting, or used in an avenue planting.
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Brunfelsia Blue Moon (Yesterday Today and Tomorrow Flower)
Brunfelsia Blue Moon, commonly known as the Yesterday Today and Tomorrow Flower, features masses of sweetly fragrant, pansy like flowers are produced through spring and summer which literally transforms the plant. Most interestingly though, the flowers open blue-violet then fade to lavender before finally turning white. It grows as a rounded cushion of leathery, green leaves to about 1.2 m tall and 2 m wide. Brunfelsia Blue Moon is commonly grown as an informal hedge, added to a mixed planting, planted around outdoor living areas, used in cottage gardens, or mass planted alongside a path or on a bank.
