Product Catalogue


Our most advanced trees are in a 160 litre bag, some species measuring up to six metres.  These trees are excellent for maximum impact.  They make ideal street trees, car park trees, shade, screen and shelter trees. These trees make any landscape or townscape look established.

In the last eight years we have put a lot of effort into producing large numbers of varieties in a 45 litre grade.  These trees are still an advanced tree and are in the 2.5 - 3.5 metre height range.  These trees are an excellent choice for anyone on a budget who still wants the established effect.

Our smallest grade of tree is the PB40 grade.  These trees are a fantastic option for the budget conscious.  All these trees are 1.5 - 2.5 metres.  They are a great option for the home gardener, they are easy to transport and plant and still give great visual pleasure. 

The price of the trees is not included in this catalogue as grades, sizes, and availablity are subject to change regularly.  However, all our prices include GST.  Please feel free to enquire about trade rates or quantity discount.



Acer - Canadian and Japanese Maples

Products

Autumn Blaze
A very popular tree with a dense crown ideal as a stand alone specimen tree or avenue planting. Fantastic autumn colours very hardy.
 
Palmatum Bloodgood
Deep maroon red foliage carried late into the season, with fiery red autumn tones, grows into a neat upright tree ideal for small gardens.
 
Palmatum Tamukeyama
Fantastic weeping maple, mushroom shaped with very dark purple foliage turns fiery scarlet in autumn.
 
Palmatum Diss Viridis
Weeping maple with sensational soft green foliage in spring turning to viberant orange tones in autumn.
 
Purpleish red foliage, deepening to a shiny blackish red as the leaves mature. Upright small tree. 4m
 
Bright red leaves changing to deep red in summer. Fast grower.
 
Similar in apperance to Bloodgood, however leaves are thinner with a distinct advantage of not leafing until about two weeks later in spring which avoides late frosts. Red Leaf colours last throughout the season. In autumn leaves turn a firey crimson and stay more intense than Bloodgood. 5m
 
Varigated foliage, very vibrant in spring, fading back to a deep green leaf with cream mottling and deep pink purple tones to the underside of the leaf. Very striking tree ideal for small gardens.
 
Rich chocolate-purple-green leaves emerge in the spring with green veining. Leaves darken to a purple-green by early summer and then become bronze green in late autumn.
 
A tall narrow tree with deep green foliage in spring and summer, very spectaular in autumn when it looks like a burning pillar.
 
An impressive, vigorous reliable tree that burns fire red. Foliage becomes purple red suffused with green in early autumn. Fireglow does well in hot, sunny conditions. An excellent container or garden plant. 4m
 
A species noted for its very distinctive papery bark. Stunning autumn colours, ideal small garden tree.
 
A small to medium sized tree, with bright green foliage in spring and summer with fantastic fiery crimson and scarlet autumn tones.
 
Well known purple leaved form noted for its rich purple foliage over spring and summer with crimson autumn colour.
 
A dwarf plant with very unusual leaves of brilliant red becoming greenish red with crimson margins throughout summer, vivid scarlet in autumn.
 
Deeply divided burgundy foliage with spectacular autumn colour of scarlet red.
 
Weeping maple with dark red foliage turning orange in autumn.
 
A wonderful green weeping maple with coarse green foliage in spring and summer and amazing autumn tones of orange.
 
Pale yellow spring grow with orange and red tints, turns green over summer then returns to viberant yellow and orange in autumn.
 
Wide, chunky leaves, beautiful bronze green over summer with intense crimson autumn tones.
 
Emerald green leaves over spring and summer with a wider and chunkier leaf than most weeping maples.
 
Beautiful small to medium size tree finely dissected bright green foliage with spectacular orange-red colour in autumn.
 
Dwarf upright growing maple becoming dense with age, fantastic spring colours changing to deep maroon in autumn.
 
A favourite around here with sensational pink growth tips and amazing autumn colours of pink and orange.
 
A strong growing upright tree with large leaves. Very bright red in spring before turning maroon over summer. Scarlet and crimson in autumn.
 
A large growing hardy tree with deep crimson leaves which remain until autumn. Also has a yellow flower just before the leaves appear.
 
Red Canadian maple, a vigorous tree with dark green leaves. Spectacular autumn tones of red and scarlet, ideal tree for street plantings or avenue planting even a stand alone specimen tree.
 
An improved variety of rubrum, it has thick dark green leaves. The most vivid autumn tones of red and scarlet. Forms a tidy upright tree with compact habit.
 
Forms a broad columnar head tree of compact branches with large fresh green leaves. Noted for sensational autumn colour from a young age.
 
Acer - Canadian and Japanese Maples | Aescules - The Horse Chestnuts | Agathis Australis - NZ Kauri | Albizia - The Silk Tree | Alectryon Excelsus - New Zealand Oak | Alnus - The Alders | Amelanchier - Shad Bush | Arbutus - Irish Strawberry Tree | Betula - The Birches | Carpinus - The Hornbeam | Carpodetus - Putaputaweta | Castanea - Sweet Chestnut | Cercis - The Red Buds or Judas Tree | Chimonanthus Wintersweet | Cornus - The Dogwoods | Cordyline - New Zealand Cabbage Tree | Coryynocarpus - Karaka | Crataegus - The Hawthorns | Dacrycarpus Dacrydioides - NZ Native Kahikatea | Dacrydium Curpessinum - NZ Native Rimu | Dicksonia - NZ Tree Fern | Dodonaea - New Zealand Ake Ake | Fagus - The Beeches | Fraxinus - The Ashes | Ginko - The Maidenhair Tree | Griselinia - New Zealand Broadleaf | Gleditisa - The Locusts | Hoheria - The Lace Bark | Juglans - Walnut | Knightia - Rewa Rewa | Laurus - Bay Tree | Liquidamber - Sweetgum | Liriodendron - The Tulip Tree | Magnolia | Malus - Crab and Ornamental Flowering Apples | Platanus - The Plane Tree | Prunus - Flowering Cherrys | Pyrus - The Ornamental Pears | Quercus - The Oaks | Robina - The Locusts | Sorbus - Rowans, Mountain Ash | Thuja | Tilea - The Limes of Linden | Ulmus - The Elms
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