Veronica 'New Zealand' (Hebe)

Common name: Hebe 'New Zealand'

Description: This distinctive evergreen shrub offers exceptional foliage colour with narrow, pointed leaves in striking bluish-green shades that create a fresh, contemporary appearance. The foliage provides excellent year-round structure and colour, maintaining its attractive blue-green tones throughout the seasons. In summer, short spikes of violet-purple flowers appear at the stem tips, creating a pleasing display that attracts pollinators. The naturally neat, compact habit forms a dense, rounded mound that requires minimal pruning. This is a hardy and reliable hebe that performs well in UK conditions, tolerating coastal exposure and urban pollution. The combination of attractive glaucous foliage, compact habit, and ease of cultivation makes this valuable for mixed borders, contemporary plantings, gravel gardens, or containers. The blue-green foliage associates beautifully with silver and purple-leaved companions.

Other benefits: year-round blue-green foliage, summer flowering, compact rounded habit, hardy and reliable, coastal tolerant, excellent for containers

Wildlife attraction: bees, butterflies, pollinators

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 0.6m x 0.6m

Position: full sun to partial shade; foliage colour best in good light

Soil pH: adaptable to most soils; performs well in neutral to slightly alkaline conditions

Moisture: moderate watering required; prefers well-drained soil; dislikes waterlogging

Winter hardiness: hardy to -10°C

Common name: Hebe 'New Zealand'

Description: This distinctive evergreen shrub offers exceptional foliage colour with narrow, pointed leaves in striking bluish-green shades that create a fresh, contemporary appearance. The foliage provides excellent year-round structure and colour, maintaining its attractive blue-green tones throughout the seasons. In summer, short spikes of violet-purple flowers appear at the stem tips, creating a pleasing display that attracts pollinators. The naturally neat, compact habit forms a dense, rounded mound that requires minimal pruning. This is a hardy and reliable hebe that performs well in UK conditions, tolerating coastal exposure and urban pollution. The combination of attractive glaucous foliage, compact habit, and ease of cultivation makes this valuable for mixed borders, contemporary plantings, gravel gardens, or containers. The blue-green foliage associates beautifully with silver and purple-leaved companions.

Other benefits: year-round blue-green foliage, summer flowering, compact rounded habit, hardy and reliable, coastal tolerant, excellent for containers

Wildlife attraction: bees, butterflies, pollinators

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 0.6m x 0.6m

Position: full sun to partial shade; foliage colour best in good light

Soil pH: adaptable to most soils; performs well in neutral to slightly alkaline conditions

Moisture: moderate watering required; prefers well-drained soil; dislikes waterlogging

Winter hardiness: hardy to -10°C