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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.
Heliohebe hulkeana
Height: 0.5m;  Spread: 1.5m
Shrub
Strikingly handsome long lavendar flower spikes set against glossy purple-green foliage. Spreading shrub from the rocky windswept Seaward Kaikoura Ranges.
» Click here for our Spring article published in The Fringe, November 2013....
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..one of my favs - as with the bugs checking it out..