Some Flowers and Shrubs Suitable for Rotorua Gardens Walter Miller Parks Technical Officer October 2010 1
2 - Eddies White Wonder Cornus drumondii • Upright grower • Spring colour • Autumn glory
3 • Manageable shrub • Huge colour range Azalea indica • Large flowers
4 Azalea Kurume • Compact grower • Massed display colour • Hardy
Pieris Japonica – Temple Bells •Lily of Valley shrub •Evergreen •Large panicles of white flowers 5
6 •Foliage changes •Spring flowering Pieris bert chandler
Fothergilla monticola • Small spring flowered shrub • Bottlebrush type flowers • Autumn colours 7
8 Acer palmatum - chishio • Great autumn foliage Superb new growth • Small compact growers.
Acer Palmatum - Dissectum ‘Orangeola’ • Weeping maple • Bronze spring growth • Fantastic autumn colour 9
10 autumn shades •Green weeping •Orange-red maple Acer dissectum viridis
11 Acer dissectum
12 Acer dissectum and Juniperus
13 •Wedding cake tree Cornus controversa Variegata •Specimen tree
14 • Pom pom flowers scented • Spring flowering shrub Viburnum Newport
15 •Compact grower •Floriferous •Evergreen Rhododendron Jeff
16 Rhododendron - Double eagle • Eye catching
17 Rhododendron Yakusianum • Great foliage plant • Compact and • hardy
18 Cordyline purple tower • Architectural plant • Impact plant
19 •Chinese Toon tree Cedrela sinensis ‘Flamingo” •Red new growth •Upright shrub
Hosta • Wonderful shade plant • Fabulous colour range • Unlimited landscape use Hosta ‘Liberty ’ Hosta ‘Old Glory ’ 20
21 Hosta ‘June’ Hosta ‘Hadspen Blue’
22 Hosta ‘Blue Sea’ Hosta ‘Dawns Glory’
23 Hosta ‘Cutting Edge’ Hosta ‘Dance with me’
24 Hosta ‘Guardian Angel’ Hosta ‘Full Monty’
25 Hosta ‘Krossa Regal’ Hosta ‘Sum and Substance’
26 Juniperus Taxifolia Lutchuensis • Landscape plant • Spreading effect • Evergreen • Hardy
Cupressus macrocarpa “Greenstead Magnifica” • Can be used as a standard • Evergreen • Good ground cover 27
Chionochloa rubra • Red tussock • Landscape plant (mass plantings) • Hardy • Foliage “ripples” in wind • Attractive seed heads 28
29 Muehlenbeckia astonii • Contrast plant • Bushy (bun shape) • Hardy
30 • Landscape plant • Vibrant golden • Clump forming foliage Libertia goldfinger
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