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Contrasting forms

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Contrasting forms

This planting at Althorp Village, Tauranga, uses fast-growing broadleaved trees as a backdrop to shelter and show off the spiky forms of cabbage trees and bush lilies (foreground). Colour is provided by the reddish-brown shrubs and silver bush lilies.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Horticultural use of native plants – The native garden, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10456/contrasting-forms (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.