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Serendipitous supply
When the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust wanted to give a gift of plants, locally sourced from Rarangi Beach, east of Blenheim, they came to Oratia. Not only could we provide an eco-sourced species, it was also a plant which had since disappeared from the region!

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Disphyma australe
Height: 0.02m;  Spread: 1m
Native Iceplant (Ground Cover)
Coastal creeping succulent. White-mauve flowers (summer). Frost tender.
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My daughter's favourite because it's pink and opens up in the sun. Maori name is apparently horokaka - this picture in late-Oct2011
This groundcover thrives in our difficult salt-and-sand blown West Coast (NI) garden. It likes it here under the ranchslider door too.
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