Contemporary Driveway combines rich foliage colours, contrasting textures, and year-round structure to create a modern, low-maintenance entrance planting. Featuring striking dark foliage, fine native grasses, architectural forms, and hardy groundcovers, this collection is ideal for long driveway borders, front entrances, and contemporary homes where strong visual impact is desired in every season.
The pack is made as follows:
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10x Red Tussock – Chionochloa rubra – A distinctive New Zealand native tussock forming graceful clumps of fine foliage in warm copper, bronze and reddish-brown tones that add movement and texture throughout the year. Height: 80 cm × Width: 80 cm. [5cm pot]
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10x Corokia 'Leprechaun' – Corokia cotoneaster 'Leprechaun' – A compact upright divaricating shrub with fine silver-green foliage, dark stems and small yellow star-shaped flowers, providing year-round structure and excellent contrast. Height: 1 m × Width: 80 cm.
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7x Sand Coprosma – Coprosma acerosa – A naturally sprawling, wiry native groundcover with bronze-green stems that softens hard edges, suppresses weeds and provides an informal coastal-inspired texture. Height: 20 cm × Width: 1.2 m.
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10x Dark Delight Flax – Phormium 'Dark Delight' – A bold architectural flax with deep burgundy to almost black foliage, creating dramatic focal points and strong colour contrast within the planting. Height: 90 cm × Width: 90 cm. [Large - 98cm Pot]
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5x Hebe 'Garden Beauty' – Hebe 'Garden Beauty' – A dense evergreen shrub producing masses of soft lilac-purple flowers over an extended season, adding colour while maintaining a tidy, rounded form. Height: 80 cm × Width: 80 cm.
These are standard size in 7cm square pots, unless stated otherwise.
See the individual plant listings for photos showing an example plant beside a ruler to give an indication of the actual size, along with more detailed information about each plant.
Suitable for planting a 50m strip, with plants at approx 1m (1.1m) spacing. It is possible to increase the length if you prefer plants with more spacing.