native flowering plants
Discover the beauty and diversity of native flowering plants and transform your garden into a vibrant, eco-friendly sanctuary. Native flowering plants not only provide stunning visual appeal but also play a crucial role in supporting local wildlife and promoting healthy ecosystems. Whether you’re seeking hardy shrubs, colourful blossoms, or fragrant foliage, native flowering plants offer endless possibilities for garden design in New Zealand. Here, you’ll find expert tips on selecting, planting, and caring for native flowering plants to help you cultivate a garden full of life and colour.
Lobelia angulata (Panakenake)
Lobelia angulata is a charming NZ native groundcover admired for its small, bright green leaves and delicate white star shaped flowers that bloom through spring and summer. This creeping perennial quickly spreads to form a dense mat, making it ideal for filling gaps in rockeries, between pavers, or as an underplanting. Hardy and low maintenance, it adds subtle beauty and resilience to NZ gardens while supporting biodiversity in naturalistic landscapes.
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Pratia angulata
Pratia angulata, commonly known as Panakenake, is a fast-growing, NZ native ground cover plant. It has small, rounded, green leaves that are held densely as it grows to 10 cm tall and 2 m wide. It bears masses of white flowers in spring, which are followed by red-purple berries in autumn. Pratia angulata is an easy-to-grow plant commonly used as an attractive ground cover, planted around rocks, or allowed to trail over the edge of a small wall. It is also well-suited to trailing over the sides of a pot.
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