Twelve Top plants to consider for your Floral Art Garden

A list of basic plants suggested by Jenny Harris FASNZ teacher & Education Committee 2008, for her students to grow or have access to for floral designs .

REQUIREMENTS:

• Aralia - Fatsia japonica

• Bergenia

• Conifer - Cham. Lawsoniana ‘Silver Queen’

• Hosta Various colours and sizes

• Pittosporum Tenuifolium ‘Irene Patterson’

• Phormium Tenax and Cookianum (NZ Flax)

• Astelia chathamica ‘Silver Spear’

• Hydrangea for leaves and flowers

• Agapanthus

• Leucadendron

• Succulents

• Jasmine

• Access to Ivy and Virginia creeper

A few more suggestions;

Trees

• Conifer Sciadopitys verticillata Japanese Umbrella Pine

• Magnolia grandiflora

Maybe a rose or two