Native Plants for Your Backyard

Native plants encourage wildlife into your backyard, providing connectivity across an urban landscape.

Encourage biodiversity into your backyard by planting native species to encourage native birds, reptiles and insects.

  1. New Zealand has a wide variety of flowering and fruiting plants that provide food and shelter year round. Some examples are kowhai, pohutukawa, rewarewa, harakeke and five-finger.
  2. Birds are typically attracted to brightly coloured flowers that provide plenty of nectar.
  3. Insects are attracted to a diversity of habitat (ground-cover, shrubs and trees). Think about how best to layer your space with a variety of plant species.
  4. Reptiles need smaller plants with places to hide. Plant closer together and underplant larger trees with shrubs to encourage lizards to your garden. Some species include toetoe, creeping fuchsia, mingimingi, coprosma and carex grasses.

For more advice regarding native plants for your backyard, contact us today.