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Spring time! We are thinking Succulent plants! and Bromeliad Gardens? Think lush foliage gardens in the Spring and Winter season for all year round garden vibrance and gain the benefits of easy care, low maintenance gardens designed by professional landscape designers in Auckland, New Zealand. NZ. New Zealand landscapers, NZLANDSCAPES advise on plant types most suitable to your landscape requirements. (Some landscaping styles suggested may not suit your soil types). Tropical Plants, generally, are more suited to growing regions with low or zero frost conditions all year, where as some succulent plant varieties will tollerate a wide range of growing conditions. EMAIL us to find out what plants are suitable for growing in your individual climate. Send Mail

When planting NZ gardens, NZLANDSCAPES landscape designers in Auckland, New Zealand, consider all the garden requirements each New Zealand plant variety will require. Soil types vary around the world and with a quick soil analysis we can gather the information required to design planting plans for your gardens accordingly. A soil analysis would include: Soil type Soil structure Soil moisture Soil pH.(Acid or Alkaline soil levels). Soil analysis is critical in the performance of particular plant types, for example a Camellia or Rhododendron will not tolerate an alkaline soil, much preferring an acid soil. Some New Zealand Phormium or Cordyline varieties will not tolerate a soil with a constant high water content, therefore sometimes struggling to grow in an over-watered container. Free draining soils are not always the best for plant types that prefer wet or bog type soils. NZ Raupo, Typha orientalis is a variety that will prefer water margin planting. If you are considering planting a ...

NZ Landscape and landscaping Trees for New Zealand gardens / landscapes. Prunus campanulata 'Okame' is a stunning specimen tree in any landscape garden scene, showing late winter to early spring garden pleasures in New Zealand, Prunus campanulata "Okame" can introduce brilliant floral displays through seasonal change. Shown here in full flower, this smaller variety of prunus will attract bird life into your garden with sweet nectar filled flowers. Flowering in July / August in New Zealand, Prunus campanulata 'Okame' is bursting with colour when the winter garden in NZ can be dull and lack vibrancy. Planting P. campanulata 'Okame' will enhance any dreary winter garden scene. Growing to a height of 4-6 meters in New Zealand gardens. May be pruned to shape during winter dormant period ( no leaf ). Can also be trained into an over head canopy rather than shrub form. Remove all additional ground level growth retaining one single growing stem when young. To ...

Pitcher Plants . These magnificent plants have both wonderful flowers and foliage. The tall trumpet pitchers range in size up to an incredible 1 meter for well matured plants. If you are unsure of what carnivorous plants are suitable for your garden you can contact a NZLANDSCAPES Landscape Designer in New Zealand. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES

Landscape design ideas, Trees for NZ gardens. NZLANDSCAPES_ PLANTS for New Zealand Gardens_ Leptospermum nitidum "Copper Sheen" Makes an exceptional residential landscaping Tree. Full size and close up photo of flower. This tree will grow in an arching upright habit, with copper tones in the leaves and purple shades through various stages of growth. Providing a sometimes smothered draping of bright white flowers with bark that shows earthy tones, bark tones remain throughout growth to maturity. In New Zealand the variety can grow quite large if given room to grow, up to 3 m, or so, under perfect conditions otherwise younger plants can be trained to have more of a controlled, vase shaped habit reaching 2.5 m. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

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