Shrubs
Native shrubs like Coprosma and Corokia are essential additions to New Zealand gardens, offering a perfect blend of form, function, and resilience. These hardy evergreens are ideal for a wide range of landscaping uses—from low-maintenance hedging and windbreaks to feature planting and native revegetation projects. Their adaptability to coastal, exposed, and dry conditions makes them particularly valuable in challenging sites.
Coprosma varieties are prized for their glossy, colourful foliage—ranging from vibrant greens to bronze, gold, and even variegated tones—which provide year-round interest. Many cultivars also develop richer hues in cooler months, adding seasonal colour to the garden. Corokia, on the other hand, is known for its distinctive wiry branching, silvery-grey or olive foliage, and star-shaped yellow flowers followed by bright red berries, making it a favourite for textural contrast and structural form.
These native shrubs are not only aesthetically appealing but also incredibly low-maintenance. They thrive in full sun to partial shade, are drought-tolerant once established, and cope well with pruning—ideal for shaping into formal hedges or natural screens. In native plantings, they support biodiversity by providing food and habitat for birds and insects.
Whether you're creating a contemporary landscape, enhancing a rural block, or restoring a native ecosystem, Coprosma, Corokia, and other native shrubs offer both beauty and ecological value. Plant singly as statement pieces, or in groups for dense coverage and visual impact.
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1x Coprosma Rugosa
Coprosma Rugosa - A tough colourful and interesting alpine shrub with very tangled orange-brown twiggy new growth. Bears blue berries attractive ...
View full detailsCoprosma Black Cloud - $8.99 each
Coprosma Black Cloud - A very hardy ground covering shrub with colourful bronze/black foliage. Masses of blue berries making it very attractive to ...
View full detailsCoprosma Brunnea
A hardy, wiry shrubby groundcover that is very tough and suitable for harsh conditions. Dense and bushy, attractive chocolate brown coloured foli...
View full detailsCoprosma Hawera
Coprosma Hawera - Popular hardy ground cover shrub with compact trailing branches that form a dense shrubby ground cover. It has masses of berrie...
View full detailsCoprosma Kirkii
Coprosma Kirkii - A hardy strong growing sprawling ground cover shrub that is very tolerant of a wide range of conditions, including drought and co...
View full detailsCoprosma Lighthouse
Coprosma 'Lighthouse' A sleek, upright grower with glossy green leaves and a natural column shape—Coprosma 'Lighthouse' is your go-to for adding ...
View full detailsCoprosma Lobster
Coprosma Rugosa Lobster - A tough colourful and interesting alpine shrub with very tangled bright orange new growth. Bears berries attractive to bi...
View full detailsCoprosma propinqua
Coprosma Propinqua - Mingi Mingi - Stiff bushy shrub, with very small leaves, and interesting divaricating interlacing dark branches. Produces mass...
View full detailsCoprosma Roys Red
Coprosma Roys Red - Richly coloured evergreen shrub with rich bronze-red foliage that provides all year round colour. Strong hardy grower withstand...
View full detailsCoprosma Rubra x 1
Coprosma Rubra - Red Stemmed Coprosma - An interesting divaricating twiggy shrub, with reddish brown stems and small leaves. A nice medium sized sh...
View full detailsCorokia Bronze Knight
Corokia Bronze King - Hardy shrub with dark green/bronze foliage, deepening in winter. Excellent as hedge or single plant in coastal, dry or frosty...
View full detailsCorokia Cotoneaster
Corokia Cotoneaster - A very distinctive shrub with dark, almost black bark, and tiny silvery leaves. Tangled, wiry growth gives it the nickname wi...
View full detailsCorokia Frosted Chocolate x 1
Corokia Frosted Chocolate - Attractive medium sized colourful shrub with chocolate coloured leaves and silvery undersides, contrasting with dark st...
View full detailsCorokia Jaxon
Corokia Jaxon - A well-loved Corokia with a dense, lively growth habit. Features striking dark, silvery-green leaves and clusters of small, star-sh...
View full detailsCorokia Red Wonder
Corokia Red Wonder - Attractive medium sized colourful shrub with dark green coloured leaves and silvery undersides, contrasting with dark stems. O...
View full detailsCorokia Red Wonder
Corokia Red Wonder - Attractive medium sized colourful shrub with dark green coloured leaves and silvery undersides, contrasting with dark stems. O...
View full detailsCorokia Sunsplash
Corokia X Virgata Sun Splash - An odd shrub with a wispy look, small, elongated leaves are variegated with sage green, yellow, silver and pink prov...
View full detailsCorokia Yellow Wonder
Corokia Yellow Wonder is a medium sized native shrub with interesting colour and form. It is very tough and hardy, making it particularly suitab...
View full detailsGrisilinea littoralis
Griselinia Littoralis - Broadleaf - Large growing and extremely hardy dense shelter. Lush dark green foliage and large leaves make this a very desi...
View full detailsGrisilinea Twilight
Griselinia Littoralis Twilight - Red stemmed Broadleaf - Large growing and extremely hardy dense shelter. Lush dark green foliage and large leaves ...
View full detailsHebe Brachysiphon
Hebe Brachysiphon - Forms a lovely compact round low growing shrub with glossy green leaves. A profilic flower, producing masses of small white ...
View full detailsHebe Ohau
Hebe Ohau is a compact flowering shrub with interesting colouring. It has violet-blue flowers late spring and into summer. It has green leaves wi...
View full detailsHebe Townsonii
Hebe Townsonii - An erect, evergreen smaller growing shrub. The leaves are light green, narrow and spear-shaped. The flowers are pale lilac, fadin...
View full detailsHebe Wiri Grace
Hebes are an exuberant and delightful garden plant that does well in a range of adverse conditions. They naturally occur in coastal, inland and al...
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