Natives recommended for Te Anau conditions

A mix of NZ Native trees and shrubs suitable for attracting, feeding and sheltering native birds.   Strongly featuring plants that produce berries ...

Phormium Tenax Purple Form - Harakeke - NZ Flax - A very distinctive larger growing flax, with tough broad purple - bronze leaves up to 1.5m long. ...

Plagianthus Regius - Ribbonwood - A tall growing column tree with strong upward growth. It has a light airey appearance and forms strong vertical s...

Olearia Nummularifolia - A very different tree daisy that dense twiggy growth and small spoon shaped yellowish green leaves, with buff undersides. ...

Corokia Red Wonder - Attractive medium sized colourful shrub with dark green coloured leaves and silvery undersides, contrasting with dark stems. O...

Chionochloa Conspicua - Snow tussock - A magnificent very large grass that resembles Toe Toe but is more attractive as a specimen plant. Distinguis...

Coprosma Rugosa Lobster - A tough colourful and interesting alpine shrub with very tangled bright orange new growth. Bears berries attractive to bi...

Olearia cheesemaniiCoastal Beauty with Bold Foliage and Brilliant Blooms White Tree Daisy Size: Mature Height 1m x Width 1m Flowering Period: La...

Corokia Cotoneaster - A very distinctive shrub with dark, almost black bark, and tiny silvery leaves. Tangled, wiry growth gives it the nickname wi...

Griselinia Littoralis - Broadleaf - Large growing and extremely hardy dense shelter. Lush dark green foliage and large leaves make this a very desi...

Hebe Brachysiphon -  Forms a lovely compact round low growing shrub with glossy green leaves.   A profilic flower, producing masses of small white ...

Olearia X Haastii - an upright, bushy, evergreen smallish shrub with dark green, shiny, leathery leaves. Flower heads of white daisy flowers, summe...

Astelia Westland - A strong architectural plant with large sword shaped leaves and clumping habit. Has very strong red-bronze colouring especially ...

Apodasmia Similis - Oi Oi or jointed rush is an interesting and unusual reed that naturally grows in very wet or semi submerged situations in coast...

Coprosma Kirkii - A hardy strong growing sprawling ground cover shrub that is very tolerant of a wide range of conditions, including drought and co...

Olearia Solandri - Golden Tree Daisy - A nice shrub with small green-yellow leaves. It is good for fast-growing shelter and hedging in dry situatio...

Cordyline pumilo - Rauriki - Dwarf Cabbage Tree - A short growing, flax like cabbage tree that has a grass like appearance as it bears slender, lig...

Coprosma Propinqua - Mingi Mingi - Stiff bushy shrub, with very small leaves, and interesting divaricating interlacing dark branches. Produces mass...

Carex Flagellifera Brown - A very popular medium grass with bronze/brown colour.  Upright form. Good contrast - texture plant. Hardy in very cold c...

Chionochloa Conspicua - Snow tussock - A magnificent very large grass that resembles Toe Toe but is more attractive as a specimen plant. Distinguis...

Phormium Cookianum Emerald Green - Dwarf Mountain Flax - A beautiful small growing flax with drooping habit and lush green foliage. Large dramatic ...

Olearia Traversii - Chatham Island Ake Ake is a very tough and hardy shrubby tree.  Being part of the Olearia family Chatham Island Ake Ake is espe...

Podocarpus Totara Matapouri Blue - A very nice bushing Totara with attractive form and an upright pyramidal habit. Good as a garden specimen or as ...

Carex Testacea - A densely tufted grass with striking bronze to orange colouring, fine narrow arching leaves and smaller growing dense form. The co...