Carpets of fragrant violet blue flowers in spring.

Phormium 'Mat's Merlot' has leaves that are dark maroon on top and a smoky green below.

Dramatic mounds of arching variegated leaves.

Phormium 'Apricot Queen' is a bright and bold cultivar with yellow leaves with a subtle cast of apricot and green edges.

Phormium 'Black Rage' is one of our favourite dark New Zealand flax with lusty shades of black, grey-black, and blue-black.

Phormium 'Evening Glow' is a dramatic cultivar with some of the brightest glowing reddish pink leaves edged in burgundy purple.

Phormium 'Jester' is an unmistakable cultivar with broad reddish-pink leaves edged in contrasting olive green.

Phormium 'Pink Panther' is a dramatic cultivar with glowing pink leaves edged in burgundy brown.

Phormium 'Platt's Black' is a bold cultivar with rich chocolate foliage.

Phormium 'Rosie Chameleon' is beautiful cultivar with glowing reddish pink centres and burgundy edges.

Phormium 'Sundowner' is a large New Zealand flax with erect, greyish burgundy leaves with hot pink highlights.

Phormium 'Wings of Gold' is a bright and beautiful cultivar with slightly arching, green leaves edged in yellow and cream.

Phormium 'Yellow Wave' is a bright and beautiful New Zealand flax with arching, green and gold striped leaves.

Phygelius Cherry Ripe has glowing, cherry red, tubular flowers that bloom all summer long. Great for hummingbirds.

Phyllostachys bissetii is a vigorous, extremely hardy species of bamboo with tightly packed, strongly upright culms perfect for privacy screens.

Want a giant bamboo forest? Here's your plant: Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon'.

Phyllostachys parvifolia is a good option for a timber bamboo in colder climates.

P. japonica 'Little Heath' is a beautiful evergreen shrub with white margins on its leaves and mahogany-red new growth.

Pilea 'Aquamarine' is a very cute trailing groundcover with red stems and tiny, rounded, metallic, light blue-grey leaves.

Pilea peperomioides, or Chinese money plant, is a coo house plant with round leaves that look like pancakes or silver dollars.