The Kowhai Tree is famous for its beautiful brilliant yellow nectar-rich flowers, which appear in early spring. A favourite food for our native birds - Tui and Kereru your Kowhai Tree Gift will bring birdsong to the garden. Known as NZ's unofficial national flower Kowhai are deciduous and wide spread throughout NZ.
More information about the Kowhai can be found on our blog
Kowhai Tree Gift - Large
- Suitable for planting throughout NZ in garden or container.
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Kowhai Tree Gift Variety: Sophora Gold (approx 70cm+ including 3l pot)
- Current Variety: Sophora Dragons Gold (Dwarf Kowhai)
- Grows approximately 2m x 1.5m (w)
- Delivered in 18cm square wooden planter gift box
Each Kowhai tree gift comes with full care instructions and your personalised, handwritten gift message entered during the checkout process.
Order online Monday-Friday before 2:30pm for same day dispatch from our offices. For standard delivery time frames around NZ from the date of dispatch please see our Delivery Information page / tab.
If you would like to add on different / further products to your gift please visit our Create Your Own Planter gift page or our Add Something Extra collection
Bay (Laurus Nobilis / Large Planter Gifts)
The Bay tree is an evergreen highly valued for its aromatic leaves used extensively in culinary dishes for seasoning. Slow growing (10-20cm per year) it can eventually reach heights of 5+ meters however can easily be trimmed every summer to be kept small for container gardening.
Grows up to 5m+, can be pruned to keep smaller and works well for topiary
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden, tolerates coastal conditions, likes warm areas.
Camellia (Hiryu - Singles / Culinary / Body Care)
Camellia 'Hiryu' produces good-sized, bright pink to deep rosy red flowers during mid March to early June. Slow growing, upright to spreading shrub or small tree with age. Oval, glossy leaves and profuse winter to spring blooming flowers in milder climates.
Grows up to 1.5mSuitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Our large planter Camellias come in a range of colours, we always hand pick the best across our range to send for you - if you are looking for a specific colour please call 0800 87 33 44 prior to ordering.
Cordyline (Chocolate Mint)
An evergreen tree with stunning green leaves with brown variagation. 80cm long leaves, Highly architectural. Enjoys sun or smei shade and hardy.
Grows to 4m (h) x 1m spreadSuitable for planting throughout NZ - Great in a container.
Cranberry (Tazi Berry)
Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs and trailing vines. The flowers are dark pink with a very distinctive petal. Pollinated by bees, Cranberry fruit is often larger than the leaves on the plant itself. Initially the fruit is white but it will turn deep red with ripening. Edible with an acidic taste.
Grows up to 1mSuitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Feijoa (Sellowiana)
The Feijoa is an evergreen shrub which originates from South America. It is both a useful landscape ornamental plant with its showy flowers against its grey/green foliage and provides fantastic fruit for eating. Sellowiana is self fertile.
Grows up to 3m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden settings.
Gardenia (Professor Pucci)
Gardenia is one of the most popular varieties of evergreen shrubs. Deep glossy green leaves and wonderful creamy white fragrant double flowers. The Gardenia prefers warmer climates and dislikes the cold and frost.
Grows up to 1.5mSuitable for planting in warmer parts of NZ in both container or garden
Kowhai (Dragon's Gold - Singles / Mixed Varieties Seasonally Planters)
Kowhai Dragon’s Gold is famous for its beautiful brilliant yellow racemes of nectar-rich flowers, which appear in early spring. They are a favourite food for NZ native birds such as the Tui and Wood Pigeon. Kowhai is an evergreen variety producing greenish yellow leaves over a long period from winter until mid spring.
Dragons Gold - Grows up to 2m - Suitable for container & Garden
Mixed Planters - Tetrapetra (and others) grow up to 8m+ - For Garden only
Lemon (Meyer)
The Meyer Lemon is one of the easiest and most reliable fruiting lemons for NZ gardens. The clean, dark green foliage forms a medium sized plant with waxy white fragrant flowers which appear in spring, summer and autumn.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Lime (Tahitian / Bearss)
Lime trees are vigorous trees with bold dark green leaves which are slightly serrated at the edges. The fruit are small to medium in size, with thin skin turning a pale yellow at maturity. The Lime's flesh is wonderfully juicy and is without seed. Fruit ripens in winter and is a fabulous addition to any garden. Tree Gifts NZ sends both Tahitian and Bearss Lime dependent on season.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Magnolia (Figo Port Wine and Little Gem seasonally)
Magnolias are evergreen and one of the first trees to lift the veil of winter, their fresh and vibrant flowers gracing bare branches in spring. Flowering early in the season, with their thick, waxy petals forming goblets on bare branches, a mature magnolia in full bloom is a breathtaking sight. Other varieties such as Mixed Up Miss and Yunnanesis are often available in our large planter tree gift boxes throughout the year.
Grows 5m +
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in garden settings.
Mexican Orange Blossom (Choiysa Ternata)
Over spring and into summer the evergreen Mexican Orange Blossom makes a beautiful show. It is a shrub from the temperate areas of Mexico with glossy dark green leaves and clusters of white flowers that have the fragrance of orange.
Grows up to 1.5m, can be pruned to keep smaller
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Olive (Olea & El Greco seasonally )
To be admired for its soft grey-green foliage, blending well with other colours in the garden. The attractive smooth grey trunks and branches take on a gnarled, twisted look when this tree reaches maturity. The Olive is not only grown for its beauty but also for its very distinctive culinary fruit and oil. Olive trees prefer full sun and do not tolerate cold winters or having "wet feet".
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Mandarin (Clementine)
Mandarin trees thrive in warmer weather and dislike frosts. Along with the delicious and generous fruit that orange trees provide, their fragrant blooms are intoxicating. Varieties change throughout the season.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting in warmer areas of NZ in both container or garden
Pohutukawa (Metrosiderous Mistral & Maori Princess)
Please note: Smaller Pohutukawa are currently unavailable due to the airborne disease "Myrtle Rust" however we do have some beautiful Pohutukawa in our Larger Planter gift range
The magnificent NZ native Pohutukawa is also fondly known to many as NZ's own Christmas Tree, due to making a beautiful showing of red flowers in the December - January period. With dark bold grey leaves and bright crimson flowers the Pohutukawa in full bloom is a sight to behold.
Grows up to 10m+
Suitable for coastal regions of NZ in the North Island or top of the South Island.
Suitable for large gardens - please check the local area suitability prior to ordering.
Tea Tree (Leptospermum Scoparium) - NZ Native Manuka
Also known as the NZ Native Manuka.
Originating in New Zealand the Tea Tree is a compact shrub with an abundance of double pink or white flowers with tiny grey-green leaves. Growing quickly it enjoys partial to full sun in a range of soils from acid to neutral.
Growing up to 1m
Suitable for planting throughout New Zealand in both container and garden
Rhododendron (Various - seasonal availability in Large Planters)
With spectacular clusters of bell shaped flowers in spring-time and evergreen leaves year round, Rhododendrons grow well in containers or under tree canopy in larger garden settings.
Grows up to 1.5m, can be pruned to keep smaller
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Trees may vary in size from those pictured on our website due to the growing nature of the trees within the seasons. Rest assured, we will always select the very best tree for your gift from our nursery.
ALL CHRISTMAS DISPATCHES ARE NOW CLOSED
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The Tree Gifts offices will be closed from 20 December 2019 to 27 January 2020. Should you need our assistance before 23 December please call 0800 87 33 44 or email via our contact us page.
Standard Delivery Time Frames (Mon-Fri):
Orders received by 2:30pm (NZST) Monday to Friday are dispatched on the day of order (or at a later date depending on the delivery date you enter into your cart) and standard delivery time frames, apply thereafter (please see below).
Please note that delivery time frames required by the courier will always over-ride the delivery date you may select in your cart. For example, should you select next day delivery but the delivery time frame required is a 2-3 day delivery service (as per the table below) this will be the quickest we can have your gift arrive at its destination. If you are in any doubt or your gift is super urgent please call 0800 87 33 44 or email us out of office hours for further information.
Approximate Time Frames for Delivery:
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Often available within Wellington CBD / Lower & Upper Hutt CBD if ordered prior to 8:30am. (ex Rural). Please place a note at cart if you are wanting us to see if Same Day Delivery is available for your order as this needs to be requested early in the morning and does not happen automatically.
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| North Island |
1-2 working days after the date of dispatch, location dependent. Typically overnight to most main centres ie: Auckland / Hamilton / Whanganui etc (ex Rural).
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| South Island |
2 - 3* working days after the date of dispatch - please allow 3 days in Autumn and Winter and Christmas period due to the weather conditions and peak season. This also applies to any order to the West Coast region. Orders to Invercargill / Gore please allow 4 working days (ex Rural)
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| Rural Delivery* |
Normal delivery time frames above + 2 working days for the rural courier to deliver to the property after arrival in the main centre. Includes all rural areas nationwide including R.D addresses and Waiheke Island. Tree Gifts does not deliver to Great Barrier Island - please see further information below on rural delivery*.
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Rural Delivery*:
We recommend holding any rural gifts ordered on a Friday over until Monday to avoid gifts sitting in a courier depot over the weekend.
When a gift travels to a rural property, initially it will travel to the main courier depot in the area on the above time frames. The gift is then given to a rural sub-contractor whom is given 48 hours (ex weekends) to deliver the gift out to the rural property. For this reason rural deliveries can take 4-5 working days to arrive depending on their location from the date of dispatch. We always send tracking information to you on email so that you can follow your gift online whilst in transit. We have been sending gifts to rural areas for over 14 years and can assure you that your living gifts are absolutely fine to be in transit for this period of time.
How do I know if the address is rural? If you are unsure if the area you are sending your gift to is rural, please use the Courier Locator which will advise if the courier is classified as rural. We do not charge extra for rural delivery, the only difference is the amount of time the courier takes to deliver the gift to the property. Please always allow +2 days on top of standard delivery time frames listed above as we cannot speed up the process of delivery.
If you have a choice of sending the gift to a home address which is rural or an office address which is in a main city, we would always suggest sending it to the main office, it will arrive 2 days quicker (as long as the office is not rural of course).
Delivery Costs:
Unlike other gift companies whom increase their prices and then state "free delivery" (we know you can see right through that!), we like to be up front about the actual delivery costs. Delivery including all external packaging starts from $5.50 NZ wide for our smallest gift items and increases by weight / dimensions to $12.50 for our large trees. For volume orders of multiple gifts, price is calculated by weight and location at checkout. We do not charge extra for rural delivery.
Saturday delivery is available on request and incurs a $9.50 ticket charge on top of normal delivery costs. As many areas are not available for Saturday delivery, please call 0800 87 33 44 to check on availability and arrange a Saturday delivery and payment if required.
Delivered by Courier:
All gifts are marked "Authority to Leave" to ensure they are left by the courier at the delivery address and no delay occurs in the delivery of your gift. The couriers do not have the ability to deliver at a specific time, nor to call or email to see if someone will be home to accept deliveries due to the vast number of parcels they deliver. They will however leave the parcel in a safe place at the property.
We recommend sending to a work address should leaving a gift at a home address not be safe or if the property is hard to access ie: fenced / dog / apartment block. If the delivery details you have provided for your order are incorrect a re-delivery fee will be required by the courier. Please use the NZ Post address and postcode finder to double check your delivery details.
At times deliveries can be delayed due to factors outside of our control (such as natural disasters, road closures, Inter island ferry sailings being cancelled due to Wellington blowing a gale!, just to name a few). Rest assured we will do our very best to have your delivery made when requested but due to these unforeseen factors cannot guarantee delivery on the date you choose 100%. We will always send you a courier tracking number on dispatch so you can view your gift whilst it is in transit with the courier and out for delivery. Should your gift not arrive when you would expect it to (given the standard time frames above), please do email and we can follow up the courier for you during office hours.
All gifts offered through Treegifts.co.nz Ltd can only be delivered to physical street addresses within New Zealand (excluding Great Barrier Island). Gifts cannot be sent internationally nor to NZ PO Boxes or Private Bags. Treegifts.co.nz Ltd are unable to seek reimbursement with couriers for delays in parcel delivery.
