Subtropica supplies edible and ornamental subtropical plants to New Zealand. We provide banana, avocado, casana, cherimoyas and unusual fruits that grow easily in our climate. Plants are grown organically without the use of chemical fertilisers or sprays. Please check our subtropical plant catalogue for our wide range of interesting plants.
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Plants include Misi Luki, Australian Ladyfinger, avocado, Hass, Reed,casana, cherimoya, casimiroa, white sapote, papaya, pawpaw, Rainbow Valley pawpaw, persimmon, Fuyu, lucuma, Chilean guava, tropical guava, babaco, passionfruit, vanilla passionfruit, ligularis, amarind, macadamia, mulberry, tamarillo, orange tamarillo, yellow tamarillo, datura, brugmansia, sugar cane, canna, guava, ginger. |
We also stock Davidson's plum, fig, Ventura, monstera, myoga, banna grass, inga, pepino, turmeric, naranjilla, coffee, cardomom, stevia, cardamom, pomegranate, quadrangularis, tea, taro, kei apple, arrowroot, Chinese quince, Bolivian fuchsia, Surinam cherry, butia capitata, Japanese raisin, kava, lemon grass, Vietnamese mint, anui, Abyssinian banana, papyrus, rose apple, Andean walnut, citrus, grapefruit, orange, Vaniglia, lime, Kaffir lime,aloe vera, pitaya, wine palm. |
Heather Squire and Andy Waugh have for a long time been committed to the principles of organic gardening and permaculture, so in 1999, when the opportunity to buy the subtropical arm of Koanga Nursery arose, they seized it with enthusiasm. They moved the nursery to their property in the hills behind Waipu in Northland, and Subtropica was born. They now have a flourishing subtropical orchard there, and it supplies seed and plant material to the nursery, as well as delicious fruit all year round.
Claire was delighted. Although she had little previous experience of subtropicals, she was also a keen organic gardener and had run her own organic market garden some years before in Taranaki.