Glaucophylla
This is a very dense bamboo used for privacy hedging, for windbreaks and as an ornamental landscape focal point. Variegated leaves give a lighter green appearance. It reaches a mature height of 12-15′ tall with 1 inch culms and can be pruned to be a lower hedge. Clumping bamboos can be planted without fear of them spreading beyond their assigned territory, making them non-invasive.
~Macarthur Palm Ptychosperma macarthurii This is one of the two most common Ptychospermas in cultivation. It is found throughout the tropical world being used in malls, parking lots, indoors and in many gardens. It is fast growing and can be grown indoors. Not very drought tolerant. There are no major insect or disease problems.
~ Song of India The song of India plant is a species from the dracaena genus (dracaena reflexa) which has become a popular house plant. This tree like plant is fairly easy to grow and maintain like others from this genus, although it does require high humidity levels. Here in Hawaii, variegated Song of India…
~ Mau’u ‘aki’aki ~ Native Petite native Hawaiian sedge, is cute in the garden, attractive among boulders, or container gardens. This native sedge forms short, rounded tufts up to 10 inches high. It has light green foliage with narrow, stiff, erect blades. When flowering, a cluster of brown spike lets form on a taller stem…
~Bulbine Orange Stalked Bulbine, bulbine frutescens. A succulent ground-cover, has narrow fleshy bright green foot-long leaves, arranged in opposite rows to form open rosettes and spreads by rhizomes to create 2 to 3 foot wide clumps. Orange flowers are 6-petaled and star-like with frilly yellow stamens atop long stalks that rise above the foliage and…
~Bougainvillea Hedge
