Tika Tipu — Native Plant Selector

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Where will you plant?

Click your ecological region on the map, or pick it from the list. Skip this to include plants from every region. Learn more: User guide · Wikipedia · DOC guide (PDF)

or choose:

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What soil is on your site?

Select the soil order at your planting site. Not sure? Look it up on the Landcare soil map, read about the soil orders, or see the summary table in the user guide.

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How wet is the ground?

Pick the typical moisture condition of the soil for most of the year. Sites that span wet and dry ground are best searched one band at a time — why, in the user guide.

This area can have times of drought Tick this if the site dries out hard in some summers. It happens on mesic and even normally wet ground — a drying wetland margin, a shallow soil over rock, or a dry east-coast season. Ticking it keeps only plants with some drought tolerance, on top of the moisture band you chose above.

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How much frost does the site get?

Frost decides more plantings than almost anything else — a frost-tender species put out on a cold flat is killed in its first winter. Pick the worst frost your site normally sees, not the average. More about frost in the user guide.

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Cold air runs downhill. A valley floor, a hollow, or the flat ground behind a solid fence or shelterbelt collects cold air and frosts far harder than the slope just above it. If your site is one of those, answer for the hollow, not for the district.

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What are you planting for?

Optional — pick a setting, then click the exact zone in the illustration. Only one zone can be active at a time; clicking it again clears it. Skip straight to results to ignore this filter. All twelve settings explained.

Selected zone:

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Results

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Got your list? Now plant it properly. Species choice is only half the job — survival comes down to fencing, pest control, weed control and technique. Read How to plant, or jump to the planting day checklist.

Not sure how to read this list? See reading your results and planting stages in the user guide.