We gardeners sometimes can be demanding, asking for plants that look good year round, are tough and require little upkeep. One genus that fits this bill is the sturdy and beautiful Coprosma repens.

Description: About 90 or so species of coprosma can be found growing in New Zealand, Australia and other areas of the Pacific. Among these shrubs and trees are countless cultivated varieties for ...

Autumn is the lingering season; trees flicker in yellows and oranges, leaves crunch below my feet and the extended twilight glows well into the evening as the sun sets, turning Mount Diablo fiery red.

As the old-fashioned larger mirror plant, Coprosma repens, fell out of favor through the 1990s, several more colorful varieties of a more compact species of mirror plant, Coprosma X kirkii, became ...

Analysis of fruit colours for the 58 Coprosma taxa in the New Zealand biogeographic region shows that 55% have fruits of varying shades of red. The remainder are either bluish (17%), whitish/cream (14 ...

Leaf playing. It’s a valuable life skill, one I learned only recently, and one that I’m sure Crikey‘s readers will find as useful as I did. For this activity, you will require a soft, shiny leaf of ...