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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.
Halocarpus biformis
Height: 4m;  Spread: 2m
Pink pine (Shrub)
Soft 'whipcord' foliage forms a dark to yellow/green tree. May have both juvenile and adult foliage at same time.
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This very large specimen was up at around 1100m on Herepai Peak in the Northern Tararua Ranges.
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