The New Zealand tea tree, or leptospermum, makes a very good garden plant, covered with flowers at this time of year. The flowers are small, cup-shaped like tiny roses.

With such an odd variety of flowers blooming out of season, it should be no surprise that New Zealand tea tree, Leptospermum scoparium, decided to join the party. It starts ...

With such an odd variety of flowers blooming out of season, it should be no surprise that New Zealand tea tree, Leptospermum scoparium, decided to join the party. It starts ...

The humble manuka or New Zealand tea tree, long valued for the part it plays in the regeneration of native bush and for its honey-making properties, may have ...