Planting the right trees in your garden

Help bring in the birds by planting these native trees suitable for a smaller garden:

  • Coprosma rhamnoides (small leaved coprosma)
  • Coprosma robusta
  • Hedycaria arborea (pigeonwood, porokaiwhiri)
  • Hebe stricta (koromiko)
  • Melicope ternata (wharangi)
  • Melicytus ramiflorus  (whitey wood, mahoe)
  • Myrsine australis (red matipo, mapou)
  • Phormium tenax (flax, harakeke)
  • Phormium cookianum (coastal flax, wharariki)
  • Pittosporum crassifolium (karo)
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium (kohuhu)
  • Pseudopanax lessonii (coastal five finger)
  • Sophora chathamica (kowhai)

Those who have a larger garden could plant:

  • Vitex lucens (puriri)
  • Belschmeidia tarairi (taraire)
  • Corynocarpus levigatus (karaka)
  • Alectryon excelsus (titoki)
  • Podocarpus totara (totara)

Excellent native ground covers include

  • Fushia procumbens
  • Pratia
  • Selliera radicans
  • Coprosma hawera

Native hedging options include

  • Griselinea littoralis
  • Corokia

Take a look at the dairy garden at The Esplanade for more ideas

A quick email to bushsoc@gmail.com with any queries will be gladly answered.

Native plants such as these are best sourced from a native plant nursery such as Kaipara Coast Plant Centre or Kaipatiki Project.