09/10/2026
🌴🌿 RARE FINDS, HIDDEN TREASURES & MORE MOVING-SALE BARGAINS! 🌿🌴
We’re open TODAY & TOMORROW, 10am–4pm — and this week we have something a little different!
As we continue clearing out the nursery and glasshouses, we keep uncovering plants we’d almost forgotten were tucked away — including some unusual and harder-to-find treasures, several with only a handful left. 🌿💚
And yes… despite selling loads of them, we STILL appear to have a small forest of Nikaus. 🤣🌴🌴🌴
So come and have a fossick!
🌿 SOME OF THIS WEEKEND’S MORE UNUSUAL FINDS…
🤍 Haemanthus albiflos — Paintbrush Lily
A lovely unusual plant with distinctive white brush-like flowers. Around 12 left.
❤️ Haemanthus coccineus — Blood Lily
A striking and much harder-to-find Haemanthus — only TWO left.
🌺 Deep Burgundy Geranium
Absolutely gorgeous deep burgundy flowers and not an easy one to propagate — only TWO plants left.
❤️ Odontonema strictum — Red Firespike
A gorgeous hardy plant that grows into a lovely shrub with striking red flowers — only 11 left.
🌴 WALKING STICK PALMS — $20
These little palms have a surprisingly fascinating history!
During the 1800s and into the early 1900s, their wonderfully straight, slender stems were harvested to make walking sticks and umbrella handles, with walking-cane production increasing again around the time of World War I.
And here’s a fabulous bit of history — the palm produces small red edible fruit, and in 1937, survivors of the Stinson mail-plane crash in Lamington National Park reportedly ate Walking Stick Palm berries while stranded in the rainforest for nine days.
They are VERY slow growing, love deep shade or dappled/filtered light, and make a beautiful understorey palm beneath established trees, Ponga or Nikaus.
Definitely one for the patient plant collector — and we have very limited numbers available at $20 each. 🌴💚
🌴 ONE LARGE FISHTAIL PALM LEFT
This one is a beauty! A fabulous statement palm in a large pot or planted in the garden, especially for creating that lush tropical look around a spa, swimming pool or outdoor area. 💦🌴
🌿 PONGA
We’ve uncovered some gorgeous Ponga too — beautiful established plants and limited numbers available.
🌿 Macrozamia communis
Another fabulous architectural plant for anyone who likes something a little different — bold, structural foliage and a great feature plant.
🌴🌴 WANT TO HIDE THE NEIGHBOURS? 🤣
Have a fence you’d rather not look at? Need some privacy around the pool, deck or spa? Or perhaps you love your neighbours dearly but don’t necessarily need to LOOK at them all the time? 😂
Have a look at our Chamaedorea costaricana palms.
These are fantastic planted together to create a lush, tropical living screen, growing to around 3 metres.
Plant them in groups along a boundary, fence, pool area or anywhere you’d like some attractive natural screening.
And unlike a traditional hedge, there’s no constant hedge trimming — generally just remove the occasional old or spent frond to keep them looking tidy. 🙌🏼🌴
They give you height, movement, greenery and privacy without creating a big boxy wall.
The photo shows exactly why we love them planted together! 💚
🌿 AND THERE’S PLENTY MORE TO DISCOVER…
🌺 Bromeliads — were $15, NOW $8
🌵 Succulents — were $6, NOW $3
🌿 Bird’s Nest Ferns — $20
🌿 Plenty of Blechnum Ferns
🌿 Philodendron Xanadu
💜 Fresh batch of Lavender — perfect for full sun and they smell soooo good!
💜 Deep-purple Hydrangeas — limited numbers
🌺 Strelitzia reginae — classic Bird of Paradise
🌴 Strelitzia nicolai — the larger, dramatic Giant Bird of Paradise
🌳 THREE Buxus specimens — established and ready for someone with a flair for topiary to give them their next haircut! ✂️😂
🌴 King Palms — $15 each or 5 for $60
🌴 Ponytail Palms — $25
🌿 Plus groundcovers, indoor plants, pots and plenty of other bits and pieces tucked around the nursery.
And of course…
🌴🌴🌴 THE NIKAUS ARE STILL HERE! 🌴🌴🌴
Somehow, despite lots finding new homes each weekend, we still have an astonishing number of beautiful Nikau palms in different varieties, sizes and grades.
Prices start from just $5, with $20 and $35 grades, right through to large established specimens for some serious instant impact.
We have Native, Kermadec and Pitt/Chatham Nikaus available.
Whether you want one statement palm, a few for underplanting or enough to create your own little Nikau grove, come and have a fossick. 🌴💚
🌱 COMPOST — 40L BAGS $10
And then there’s…
🌿🌿 FREE MULCH! 🌿🌿
With any purchase, bring along some suitable tubs or buckets and help yourself to some mulch FREE.
Need rather more than a bucket or two?
🚚 Trailer loads — $30 per trailer
It’s self-load, so bring a shovel and whatever you need to take it home. 💪🏼🌿
🧚♀️🍄 FAIRY-GARDEN GOODIES
We still have our cute little fairy-garden bits and pieces too — fairies, mushrooms, coloured stones and other little treasures.
Add a pot and a couple of inexpensive plants and create your own miniature garden. Great fun for the kids or grandkids… although we have discovered that plenty of grown-ups seem rather fond of them too! 😂🧚♀️
📅 OPEN TODAY & TOMORROW
🕙 10AM – 4PM
📍 West Auckland Landscaping & Palms
68 Trig Road, Whenuapai
🚗 HOW TO FIND US
Drive past the letterboxes and continue down the private/shared road. We’re further down on the left, clearly signposted #68.
🌴 Just to avoid any confusion — we are NOT Touch of the Tropics, the lovely tropical nursery you’ll see near the entrance to the driveway.
Keep going past them and continue down the shared road to find us.
And while you’re here, they’re well worth a look too! If we don’t have the tropical plant you’re hunting for, pop in and see them afterwards. 🌴💚
🌕🤣 THE WEEKLY ROAD REPORT…
Our formerly famous moon craters have had their cosmetic surgery and many have now been filled with rubble and stones.
We therefore no longer offer the full lunar crater experience… just a somewhat bumpy, lumpy lunar surface. 🤣
Please still CRAWL down the shared road slowly — your suspension will thank you!
💳 EFTPOS available — debit cards only
💵 Cash welcome
🚫 Sorry, no PayWave or credit cards
Come out for a wander, discover some of the weird, wonderful and unusual plants we’ve unearthed, grab yourself a bargain and help us find homes for a few more members of our seemingly never-ending Nikau forest! 🤣🌴🌿💚
