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Summer planting
Contrary to popular opinion, summer planting is fine as long as adequate water is provided throughout any prolonged dry periods. This allows you to take advantage of increased summer growth.
Centipeda aotearoana
Height: 0.01m;  Spread: 0.3m
New Zealand sneezewort (Herb)
An opportunist herb that colonisers the beds of freshly drained dams and ponds . It is shortlived but seeds rapidly to recolonise other damp areas. Recently recognised as a distinct species endemic to New Zealand.
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Centipeda aotearoana, a NZ endemic and close relative to C. minima.
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