Lower-growing fine textured hedging plants:
- Buxus sempervirens ‘Gold Tip’ – fast-growing form of common box with dark green leaves.
- Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffructicosa’ – slow-growing form of common box with bright green leaves.
- Lonicera nitida ((boxleaf honeysuckle) – small leaves forming a tight hedge, tiny white flowers.
- Teucrium fruticans (shrubby germander) – grey foliage and mauve flowers.
Medium to tall fine textured hedging plants:
- Abelia grandiflora – glossy dark-green leaves and white flowers.
- Escallonia ‘White Knight’ (white flowers), White Profusion’ (white flowers), ‘Red Knight’ (red flowers), ‘Apple Blossom’ (pink flowers).
- Pittosporum tenuifolium varieties (e.g. ‘Mountain Green’, ‘Silver Sheen, ‘Stephens Island’, ‘Wai-iti’, ‘Waimea’, ‘Wrinkle Blue’).
- Corokia varieties (e.g. ‘Bronze King’, ‘Geenty’s Green’, ‘Frosted Chocolate’).
Medium to tall coarse textured hedging plants:
- Griselinia littoralis (NZ broadleaf) and varieties such as ‘Ardmore Emerald’, ‘Broadway Mint’, ‘Canterbury’, ‘Variegata’ – large rounded shiny green leaves.
- Olearia paniculata (akiraho) – green leaves with a silvery underside.
- Pittosporum eugenioides (lemonwood) – longer pale-green leaves.
- Prunus lusitanica (Portugal laurel) – large dark-green shiny leaves and sprays of white flowers.