Ornamental Shrubs

• NZ non-native shrubs from around the world in cultivation throughout New Zealand.
• For simplicity defined as woody plants with a mature height below 5m.

Abelia x grandiflora - Green Glossy Abelia
Abelia x grandiflora 'Edward Goucher' - Glossy Abelia
Abelia x grandiflora 'Francis Mason' - Golden Glossy Abelia
Artemisia arborescens - Shrub Wormwood - Mediterranean
Artemisia arborescens 'Powis Castle' - Wormwood
Aulax cancellata - S Africa
Berberis darwinii - barberry
Berberis thunbergii 'Aurea' - Japanese barberry
Berberis thunbergii 'Rose Glow' - Japanese barberry
Berberis wilsoniae - Wilson barberry - China
Berberis thunbergii 'Atropurpurea' - red barberry - Japan
Beschorneria yuccoides - Mexico
Buddleia alternifolia - fountain buddleja - SE Asia
Buddleia x weyeriana cultivars - butterfly bush plants
Bursaria spinosa - Australian blackthorn / boxthorn
Callistemon 'Burning Bush' - bottlebrush
Callistemon macropunctatus - bottlebrush - Australia
Callistemon viridiflorus - green bottlebrush - Tasmania
Cassia 'John Ball'
Chaenomeles 'Dazzler' - Japanese quince
Choisya 'Aztec Pearl'
Choisya ternata - Mexican orange blossom - Mexico
Cistus cyprius - rock rose
Cistus monspeliensis - rock rose
Cistus x pulverulentus 'Sunset' - rock rose
Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold' syn. Diosma - confetti bush
Coprosma antipoda - Antipodes Islands
- DRUPES IMAGE CLOSE-UP
Cornus alba 'Elegantissima' - variegated dogwood
Cornus stolonifera 'Flaviramea' syn. sericea - yellow / golden dogwood
- YELLOW STEM DOGWOOD / GOLDEN OSIER DOGWOOD STEMS
Correa 'Pink Salmon'
Correa reflexa 'Fat Fred'
Corylus avellana 'Contorta' - contorted hazelnut / cobnut - Europe
- TWISTED HAZELNUT STEMS - CONTORTED HAZELNUT LEAVES
Corylus maxima 'Purpurea' - filbert, purple-leaf hazelnut - Europe, Asia
Cotinus coggygria 'Grace' - purple smoke bush
Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' - purple smoke bush
Cotoneaster salicifolius - China
Crinodendron hookerianum - Chile lantern tree
Crowea exalata - Australia
Daphne bholua - paper Daphne, lokta - Himalayas
- PINK DAPHNE FLOWERS HIGHLY SCENTED, CLOSE-UP
Daphne longilobata
Desfontainea spinosa - Andes
Deutzia crenata 'Nikko' - Japan and China
Deutzia gracilis - slender Deutzia - Japan
Deutzia scabra 'Pride of Rochester' - fuzzy Deutzia - Japan
Dirca palustris - leatherwood, ropebark - USA, Canada
Disanthus cercidifolius - China, Japan

Elaeagnus multiflora - China, Japan
Elaeagnus pungens 'Maculata' - silverberry - Japan
Elaeagnus x ebbingei 'Limelight' - Russian olive, oleaster, silverberry
Enkianthus perulatus
Eremophila drummondii - emu bush - Australia
Erica cruenta - South Africa
Erica cultivars - heathers, heath - Europe
- HEATHER PLANT FLOWERS
Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald n Gold' - wintercreeper Euonymus
Euphorbia characias ssp wulfenii
Euryops pectinatus - golden daisy bush - S.Africa
Fatsia japonica - Japanese aralia - S Korea
- FATSIA FLOWERS - FATSIA FRUIT / BERRIES
Fothergilla major - large Fothergilla - Allegheny Mts. USA
- FOTHERGILLA AUTUMN LEAVES
Garrya elliptica 'James Roof' - catkin / silktassel bush - USA
- LONG SILK TASSEL BUSH CATKINS PHOTO
Grevillea 'Boongala Spinebill'
Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Mantle'
Grevillea rosmarinifolia - rosemary Grevillea - Australia
Grevillea 'Superb' - cultivar form
Grevillea victoriae - royal Grevillea - Australia
Hamamelis mollis - Chinese witch hazel
- WITCH HAZEL TREE - CHINESE WITCH HAZEL FLOWERS
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Carmine Red' - hybrid witch hazel
Helichrysum petiolare - licorice plant
- LICORICE PLANT FLOWERS
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis cultivar red - China rose, Chinese Hibiscus
Hydrangea macrophylla blue - bigleaf / mophead hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla violet - bigleaf / mophead hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia cultivar - oakleaf Hydrangea
- OAKLEAF HYDRANGEA FLOWER PHOTOGRAPH
Hydrangea bretschneideri - China
Hypericum calycinum
Hypericum hookerianum
Hypericum patulum
Jasminum humile
Kalmia latifolia
Kolkwitzia amabilis
Lavandula stoechas cultivar - French lavender
Leucadendron argenteum - silver tree - Cape Peninsula
Leucadendron 'Safari Sunset' - conebush
- LEUCADENDRON BUSH IN FULL FLOWER
Leucospermum reflexum - cocket Pincushion
Leucothoe fontanesiana - fetterbush
- LEUCOTHOE AS A GROUNDCOVER PLANT
Ligustrum sinense - Chinese privet - China
- Chinese Privet - New Zealand National Plant Pest - More info
Lomatia tinctoria - guitar plant
Lonicera maackii - amur honeysuckle - E Asia
Loropetalum 'China Doll' - Chinese witch hazel / fringe flower
Loropetalum chinense - Chinese witch hazel / fringe flower
Lupinus arboreus - bush lupine, tree lupine
- Lupinus arboreus - Designated a New Zealand National Plant Pest
Mahonia lomariifolia - Chinese holly grape
- MAHONIA FLOWERS
Mahonia pinnata
Mitraria coccinea
Myrtus communis - common myrtle
Nandina domestica - heavenly bamboo
Nandina domestica 'Firepower' - dwarf heavenly bamboo
Osmanthus delavayi - Delavay tea olive, Delavay Osmanthus
Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki' - variegated false holly
Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus' - purple false holly
Pachysandra terminalis - Japanese spurge
- PACHYSANDRA GROUND COVER BENEATH TREES
Paeonia delavayi var. lutea - yellow tree peony
Phebalium squameum 'Illumination' - Australia
Philadelphus coronarius - sweet mock orange, seringat

- SERINGAT FLOWERS

Philadelphus x lemoinei - mock orange
Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin' - red-tipped / Fraser Photinia
Pieris 'Forest Flame' - Japanese Pieris, andromeda
Pieris japonica - Japanese Pieris, andromeda
Polygala myrtifolia 'Liddle Charmer' - South Africa
Protea eximia - ray-flowered Protea
Protea neriifolia
Protea roupelliae
- FLOWER WIDER SHOT
Prunus x blireana - Double pink flowering plum
Psoralea pinnata
Ribes sanguineum - flowering currant
Rosa gallica - gallica rose
Ruscus aculeatus - butcher's broom
Sambucus adnata
Santolina chamaecyparis - cotton lavender
Santolina 'Lemon Fizz' - cotton lavender cultivar
Sarcococca ruscifolia - W China, Tibet
- HIGHLY SCENTED FLOWERS
Skimmia japonica - China, Japan
Sorbus reducta - Chinese / dwarf rowan
Teucrium fruticans - shrubby / tree germander
Tibouchina urvilleana - glory flower, glory bush, princess flower
- syn. Lasiandra semidecandra
Ugni molinae syn. Myrtus ugni - Chilean cranberry / guava
Ulex europaeus - gorse, furze, whin, honey bottles, hoth
- Gorse - Designated a New Zealand National Plant Pest
Vaccinium delavayi - blueberry
Viburnum cotinifolium - Himalayas
- FLOWERS CLOSER
Viburnum davidii - David viburnum
Viburnum dentatum syn. V. canbyi - Southern arrow wood - USA
Viburnum opulus - guelder rose, common / European snowball
Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii' - Japanese snowball bush
- WHITE FLOWERS - RED AND BLACK BERRIES
Viburnum rhytidophyllum - leatherleaf Viburnum
Viburnum tinus - laurustinus
- LAURUSTINUS FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPH - VIBURNUM FLOWERS
Viburnum tinus 'Eve Price' - laurustinus
Weigela florida - N. China, Korea, Japan
Weigela florida 'Variegata'

 

For more ornamental shrub photography see category:

• NEW ZEALAND NATIVE SHRUBS