PLANTING OPTIONS
FRUIT HEDGE
Try fig, eg ‘Brown Turkey’, ‘Mrs Williams’ or ‘Mission’; cherry guava; avocado; citrus; feijoa; or olive.
FOOD FOREST
Plant herbs such as borage, rosemary, lavender, basil, thyme; berries such as blueberries and raspberries; bee-attracting flowers like alyssum, bee balm, calendula, cosmos, echinacea, rengarenga lily, salvia.
EDGING PLANTS
Try chives, thrift (Armeria maritima), rain lilies (Zephyranthes), Dianella ‘Little Jess’, black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’), Liatris spicata.
TREES FOR SHELTER BELT (KEEP TRIMMED TO 2-3M)
Try karo (Pittosporum crassifolium), mapou (Myrsine australis), bottlebrush (Callistemon), blue totara (Podocarpus ‘Matapouri Blue’).