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Page 6. External links and sources

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  • RNZIH – Conference 1999

    The Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture
    site includes PDFs of papers from the 1999
    conference ‘New Zealand Plants and Their
    Story’.

More suggestions and sources

  • Cave, Yvonne, and Valda Paddison. The
    gardener’s encyclopaedia of New Zealand native
    plants
    . Auckland: Random House, 1999.
  • Gabites, Isobel, and Rob Lucas. The native
    garden: design themes from wild New Zealand
    .
    Auckland: Random House, 1998.
  • Metcalf, L. J. The cultivation of New
    Zealand trees and shrubs
    . Rev. ed. Auckland:
    Reed, 2000.
  • Metcalf, L. J. New Zealand native rock
    garden & alpine plants
    . Auckland: Random
    House, 2000.
  • Spellerberg, Ian, and David Given, eds.
    Going native: making use of New Zealand
    plants
    . Christchurch: Canterbury University
    Press, 2004.
  • Thompson, Peter. The looking-glass garden:
    plants and gardens of the southern hemisphere
    .
    Portland: Timber Press, 2001.
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Maggy Wassilieff, Horticultural use of native plants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/8349/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.