A selection of O. laevigatum made 25 or 30 years ago at a famous English Nursery. I’ve grown it for 20 years and have a good patch in the dry garden. From a mat of evergreen leaves 60cm tall, wiry stems carry rich purple pink flower heads from midsummer until the winter. A, more...

Pat Bowley, whose garden near Bowral was a joy when I visited it a few years ago, gave me some plants of this tough New Zealand native grass. An evergreen it makes arching clumps of glossy copper sheened green leaves which during autumn and winter turn to shades of coffee,, more...