Vireyas NZ, Kerikeri, Northland, New Zealand - Vireya Rhododendrons

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Welcome to Vireyas NZ

Thank you for visiting our Web Site. We hope you enjoy reading about our plants. We would also like to introduce ourselves as the owners of Vireyas NZ, following the purchase of complete Vireya stock from Te Puna Cottage Gardens and their Mail Order business. We have moved everything to our nursery in Kerikeri where we have an established wholesale tree and shrub nursery.

Following the organisation and sorting of all the plants we are now working on a production schedule so all varieties are propogated and available again. The purchase of John Kenyon's stock is an exciting development for our nursery in which we had an interest in Vireyas, but only produced a few varieties. The Vireya part of our business will be run as mail order sales only, with no retail outlet at present. Pre-ordered plants can also be picked up but there is no display area at the moemnt however, we hope to develop this website to include more photos to assist ordering.

Photo: Yuan and Tim Edgecombe, owners Vireyas NZ

Some of our stock will also be available through selected retailers that we supply. In the future we plan to carry on John kenyon's breeding programme which has produced many exceptional varieties, and as we have taken over most of the seedlings in his breeding programme we hope to introduce more new releases after these have been evaluated. We will also be carrying out our own breeding with the aim of continueing his work.

Vireyas NZ - young plants in our nursery

Photo: Young plants in our nursery

We do have hundreds of other varieties not listed on our catalogue - due either to the fact of too few numbers at the time of producing the present catalogue, or because some varieties have been superseded by better ones - so if you have heard of one you are interested in please enquire. We put on and take off from the catalogue as different varieties are ready. We have many new releases in the pipeline also to watch out for. we are currently working from Johns latest Catalogue which will remain current at present. A supplementary list will also be sent out with catalogues ordered.

Sometimes we cannot supply plants at catalogue prices, either because we have temporarily sold out of that grade, or because smaller plants or larger plants only are available. We will gladly replace any mail order vireya which dies within 3 months of purchase if all due care was taken. This current catalogue cancels out all previous catalogues, and it should be noted that plants and prices quoted within are for this current issue only.

Tim and Yuan Edgecombe

Kerikeri