Corokia Species, Wire-Netting Bush

Grows well for us in Sonoma zone 9A. Unique and attractive, nice with under-lighting, love the compliment of purple-magenta flowered bulb...Read Mores such as cyclamen, iris etc. I like it treated more sculpturally vs as a shrub-blob. Fell in love with this plant the first time I saw it.

This is the pride of the Zen Garden in our new house. Can’t say enough about the beauty of this plant. I had one in our old house and t...Read Morehe ‘Blow And Go’ gardeners pulled it out because they thought it was a weed. A $60 weed! (Ha…needless to say, when we moved I decided to do all my own gardening. Years of pleasure as a result.) Corokia is an evergreen from New Zealand. The leaves are tiny tiny and of a blue-black-silver color. Stunning against any green. The other wonderful thing about this plant is the awesomeness of using the branches as foliage in flower arrangements. It is slow to grow, so spend the money for a gallon pot...if you can find one. Also it is easily pruned to keep it the size you desire. Just treasure it.

I love this plant and was determined to have it, even in my hopelessly cold zone. I successfully overwintered it in a pot in a sunroom th...Read Moreat is heated to 50 degrees (but will get warmer on sunny days). During the summer, I put it outside.

This plant is much hardier than the profile says it is. My Corokia plants live in two different containers outside, in a slightly protect...Read Moreed area, and have made it through several very cold spells here in the Northwest. These are plants people always ask about, and almost always want to find for themselves. I highly recommend this plant, even with its cute little yellow blooms.