FLATTO® Fabulous

FLATTO® Peaches have been extremely popular over recent years, and now there are two new FLATTO® varieties for home gardeners to enjoy - a Peach and for the first time, a Nectarine! The fruit is loved by kids and adults alike, being easy to eat and virtually unsquashable in lunch boxes! The stone can be removed by simply pushing the centre of the fruit, turning it into a fruity donut!

In Spring, the trees produces an abundance of white-pink blossom (40-50 flowers per metre of branch!). Both varieties are self fertile. The trees will grow to around 3.5m tall, but can be espaliered into a fan shape in smaller gardens.

The new yellow fleshed varieties are named ‘Button Bright™’ (Nectarine) and ‘Sweet Bonnet™’ (Peach). These new varieties join ‘Sweet Cap™’ (Peach – white fleshed) which was released by Waimea Nurseries in 2009. All three Flatto® varieties are grown exclusively by Waimea Nurseries.

FLATTO® NECTARINE BUTTON BRIGHT™
Produces large crops of sweet, tasty, yellow-fleshed fruit in mid-late February. The fruit weighs between 100-140g each. (Provisional Plant Variety Rights Protection – Oriola).

FLATTO® PEACH SWEET BONNET™
Produces large crops of sweet, tasty, yellow-fleshed fruit in early-mid February. The fruit weighs between 100-130g each. (Provisional Plant Variety Rights Protection – Oriane).

These new varieties are available from garden retailers nationwide from March, perfectly timed for Autumn planting – one of the best times to plant fruit trees.

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Mystic Dahlia Series

Bred by New Zealand’s own Dr Keith Hammett, the Dahlia Mystic series is getting rave reviews!

This contemporary range of Dahlia are just right for todays gardens. These beauties are set apart from other Dahlia by their fashionable filigreed mahogany to black foliage topped with the most vivid blooms.  Enlivening even the dullest of gardens with their textural foliage and vivid blooms; they are truly colour invigorating.  Oozing with lushness and sophistication, these stunners are complimentary amongst low maintenance native gardens as impact colour spots.  With this series you are really spoilt for choice:

Mystic Dreamer – candy stripe pink
Mystic Enchantment – fire engine red
Mystic Haze – apricot/orange
Mystic Illusion – vivid yellow
Mystic Wonder – velvety red
Dream Catcher – vibrant red and pink
Dream Seeker – burnt orange and pink

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Inticancha Alstroemeria - Dwarf Garden

The Inticancha range is a new range of Peruvian Lily which has been bred for a tidy, ultra compact habit, long and profuse flowering and non invasive habit. While great for gardens and containers the Inticancha range also offer stunning blooms for picking with exceptional vase life.

Featuring blooms that are bigger than ever, the Inticancha are versatile plants which will flower from late spring until the first frosts, providing a continuous supply of flower stems to pick. Reaching only 40cm in height in the garden, means the stems look fantastic amassed in short vases.
 

Sunpatiens

Transform your garden with the new stunning easy-to-grow, easy-to-enjoy SunPatiens®; the revolutionary new hybrid impatiens that love the sun as well as the shade and flaunt brilliant flowers from spring to first frosts.

One touch of their thick, large, showy petals is enough to see why these beauties are winning accolades around the world. Eight stunning colours have been released in this series. Use them in containers, baskets or the garden and you’ll be blessed with massive flower power and season-long enjoyment.

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Petunia Blueberry Crush

Petunia Raspberry Blast the ‘perfect perennial’ with its pink blooms edged in deep cerise pink really makes you say wow and now this spring the new release in the cupcake series is Petunia Blueberry Crush - it’s new and it’s delectable. This new Petunia has stunning blueberry/purple flowers which are highlighted with a distinctive violet throat which covers it cascading foliage. Both Petunias are bred for their trailing habit, continual flowering and tolerance to extreme heat. These low maintenance stunners are winners for containers, hanging baskets and garden beds.

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Ruffles Lavender

Lovers of lavenders will delight in the delicious selection of colours available in the ‘Ruffles’ lavender collection. Their chunky bracts atop the flower heads have distinctive ripples along their margins to give the ruffled appearance for which they have been named.

• Compact and neat in habit
• Ideal for small garden and spaces
• Fantastic ornamental and low informal hedging
• Perfect for aromatic and cottage style gardens
• Easy care and hardy
• Grow to 50 cm by 60 cm

There are Four ‘Ruffles’ varieties are available - ‘Sugarberry’ (combined mauve and pink), ‘Raspberry’ (pink), ‘Blueberry’ (deep mauve/purple), ‘Boysenberry’ (musky pink with white swirling centres)

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Petunia Black Velvet

'Black Goes with Everything"

Black Velvet presents the world’s only black petunia and there’s a lot of buzz around this unique colour. Black Velvet is like your little black dress, its goes with everything.

A perfect fit for premium baskets, containers and general garden use, this combo–friendly petunia partners well with many other sun lovers.  These upright, mounded petunias are early to flower, have a tightly branched habit and are filled with colour all season.  Black Velvet is easy to grow.

Black Velvet is available at all good garden retailers.

Ariane and Divine™ apples

Ariane and Divine™ make growing apples easy as they are naturally resistant to black spot and can be grown with basically no spraying. While older varieties are often hardy to disease, these new varieties have superior fruit quality, flavour and storage, as well as being more productive.

Ariane has been grown in French organic orchards for around five years, and now Kiwi gardeners can enjoy this fantastic. The fruit is medium sized with a flattened shape and a sweet/sharp balanced flavour. Ariane ripens in late summer, and is delicious eaten straight from the tree or refrigerated for winter eating.

Divine™ is just like Royal Gala with mildly sweet flavours and moderate acidity. Light cottony crisp flesh. Divine apples are best picked in late summer, with the flavour developing when refrigerated for up to 3 months.

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Scent From Heaven

Traditionally Dianthus will flower once, in spring and can often have an unruly habit.
In winter when there is no flower they will appear as a tight compact ‘grey hedgehog’. This makes them useful for many applications, from mass planting in regular garden beds for year round colour and foliage structure, to pots on the patio to make use of the heavenly scent.

There is a range of six available to tempt you and your garden and with names like ‘Angel Of Wisdom’ and ‘Angel Of Beauty’ they are the perfect gifting opportunity in this season of giving.

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Dianella Blue Twist
 

Dianella Blue Twist has stunning contrasting colours amongst its foliage, which sporadically twists and turns providing a unique look.

They are well suited to landscaped gardens that need the colour of great foliage 365 days of the year and at the same time utilizing low to no irrigation making them easy to maintain, environmentally friendly and suitable for mass planting.

One of its best features is that not only does it look amazing, but it is easy to maintain growing to 45 cm by 45 cm.

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Dianella ‘Emerald Arch’
 

This weepy little number has the most wonderful qualities for the modern garden.  Bred in Australia, this is a goodie for those wanting an extremely easy care option – perfect for the likes of myself and my mountain of liquefaction. ‘Emerald Arch’ is an ornamental flax lily; distinguished by its arching leaves and is a cold hardy darling of the Foliage First Dianellas that are proving to be true gardening delights.
 

It is well suited to landscaped gardens that need the colour of great foliage 365 days of the year and at the same time uiltilizing low to no irrigation. Containerize this one in your courtyard or plant in full sun or shade in the garden bed, and then sit back; all the hard work has been done.

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Hebe Jewel of the Nile

An easy care garden shrub which always has a point of interest with cream and green foliage featuring contrasting rich ruby red stems. The ruby colour on the stems spreads across the foliage to give the plant a sparkling jewel like appearance in the colder months. Autumn brings a smattering of bold ruby coloured flowers.

Jewel of the Nile is perfect in pots and thrives in a full sun position, although needs to be protected from very harsh frosts.

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Coprosma Scarlet O’Hara

Coprosma Scarlett O'Hara features delicious reddish orange variegated foliage which changes with the seasons. After the rich crimson tones of summer the cooler months bring a rich burgundy and black appearance which will make a lovely accent to Autumn or Spring flowering perennials.

Scarlett O'Hara is from the Native Gems breeding program and is part of the very popular Cocktail Coprosma range.

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Nectarine ‘Mabel’

Found as a seedling underneath a ‘Blackboy’ peach tree by a Waikato gardener named Mabel, this nectarine is unique with it’s stunning dark purple foliage and delicious sweet purple-skinned nectarines.

This variety will grow well in all areas of the country, ripens in mid season and is quite hardy to diseases. As with all nectarines, this variety is self fertile.

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