Central Japan. Conical evergreen, highly valued in Japan for building temples, shrines, baths and table tennis blades. Wood is lemon scented, straight grained and very durable. Needs a well drained soil. Rare in NZ. Open Ground grown transplants

Looks like a miniature toe toe. Flowing green foliage. Drooping greenish flower plumes turn cream then fawny brown. Attractive for months. Full sun or light shade.

Common bushy straight stemmed native shrub with wide angled branches, bearing clustered pairs of variably shaped small dark green leaves. Fruit pale blue eaten by birds.

Bred by Mike Geenty, this clone has bright lime green leaves and is evergreen. Masses of tiny yellow flowers then orange berries for the birds, Upright growth, clips well as a hedge.Withstands coastal exposure and dry. For a low hedge of between 50cm – 1m we recommend you plant them 30cm – 50cm apart. For a hedge of between 1m – 2m we recommend planting them 50cm – 1m apart.