Hokonui Alpines
A New Zealand MAIL ORDER NURSERY specialising in alpines
and rock garden plants.
WELCOME! We are a small family nursery run by Peter Salmond
and his sister Louise. OUR SPECIALITY is a large range of alpine plants
from all around the world and dwarf perennials and miniature bulbs suitable for the rock garden. For forty six years we have been growing and selling
these lovely little plants by mail order to enthusiastic gardeners
throughout New Zealand.
The NURSERY LOCATION, at an altitude of about 225metres, lies in the
Hokonui Hills a few kilometres North West of Gore, in the lower South
Island of New Zealand.
Our climate is cool temperate, with cool dry winters, wet springs, and
long daylight hours and low humidity during summer. Temperatures range
from approx -8C to 30+C.
The highlight of our year is always a trip to the
Spring Alpine Plant Show in Christchurch, hosted by the New Zealand Alpine Garden Society, where we
exhibit and sell plants. In recent years we have received a number of
premier awards for such treasures as Nototriche alternata,
Ranunculus godleyanus and Iris sari.
Other events which we attend include the Dunedin Rhododendron Fete held in the upper Botanic Gardens
in October, and Thieves' Alley held during Dunedin's Festival Week.
WEBSITE UPDATED 14th MAY 2012
NEW ZEALAND GARDENERS: Our ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PLANTS
currently in stock is ONLINE and updated regularly.
OVERSEAS GARDENERS: We have a regularly updated ONLINE EXPORT SEED LIST of nursery-produced seed for sale.
We regret we do not export live plants.
NURSERY VISITORS - The nursery is open to individual visitors, by appointment.
Please phone to arrange a time and date. Sorry, no groups.
• Photos on this page are:
PHYSOPLEXIS comosa
CAMPANULA fragilis
WAHLENBERGIA serpyllifolia major
CAMPANULA Mist Maidens
ASYNEUMA limonifolium
These are shown for your enjoyment and are available
only when listed in the PLANT CATALOGUE.
• Note: On this website a mouse-click on underlined text will take you to either another page or a photograph of a plant. To go back use the backspace key on your keyboard or click the back button on your screen.
LINKS:
Visit these links to garden websites and alpine plant and rock garden enthusiasts.
Most of them have online Forums which you can join, and the societies and clubs all have world-wide memberships and
produce excellent Bulletins each year.
New members are most welcome!
Gardenweb and DavesGarden are comprehensive gardening websites with lots of interesting features.
ALPINE GARDEN SOCIETY
DAVE'S GARDEN
GARDENWEB
NEW ZEALAND ALPINE GARDEN SOCIETY
NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY
SCOTTISH ROCK GARDEN CLUB
Copyright of all photos - Hokonui Alpines 2006-2012