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Last updated – February 2025
Home – updated – February 2025 (new illustration)
About us – updated – February 2025 (committee member changes)
Events – updated – February 2025 (Proposed stands at Gardener’s World Spring and Autumn Fairs and Alpine Garden Society Spring Show)
Hebe Society AGM in August 2025 – based on Edinburgh
Shows – updated – February 2025 (photo of 2024 exhibit added)
Join us – updated 1 May 2010 (increased subscription rates)
Join by post – updated 1 February 2022 (change of Treasurer)
Join on-line – updated 15 January 2019 (notes added for Chrome and Edge users)
Renew online – added 14 August 2010
Starter Pack – updated – February 2025 (details of what you get when you join)
Hebe News – updated – February 2025 (details of latest ‘Hebe News’ added)
Article 1 – updated – February 2025 (a new article added)
Article 2 – updated – February 2025 (another new article added)
Archive – updated – February 2025 (Members only – Volume 8, and Volume 39 complete)
Hebe News Index – updated February 2025 (‘Hebe News’ Index updated)
Privacy policy – added 14 February 2009
About site – updated February 2025 (notes on picture editing updated)
Information – updated February 2025 (population of United Kingdom updated)
Books – updated 3 April 2020 (three books on New Zealand trees added; bookshops updated)
Questions – FAQ – updated 3 April 2020 (Question where to buy hebes in the USA – nurseries listing revised added)
Q & A – updated 22 December 2007 (Question added on growing hebes in Queensland, Australia. It was moved from Links page)
Gardens – updated – 3 April 2020 (All entries checked and where necessary updated)
The Lovell Quinta Arboretum – updated February 2025 (Hebe beds updated)
Nurseries – updated updated 4 September 2021 (The Hedgerow Plant Centre added)
NZ
News – URL updated 14 February 2021 – latest Conservation
and Environment stories from
‘The New Zealand Herald’ (updated daily)
Pruning Hebes – updated 3 April 2020 (new page added)
Hebes A to Z – updated – 8 June 2024 (link added to Royal Horticultural Society trial of hebes, here called veronicas)
Hebe cultivation – updated November 2022 (link added to video of hebe cultivation)
Find hebes – added 9 February 2008 (help with finding hebes in the UK, Netherlands, New Zealand and USA)
Introduction to hebes – added 11 October 2008
Hebe registration – added April 2023
NZ plants A to Z – updated 5 September 2009 (Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Loxhill Gold‘ and Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Margaret Turnbull’ added, photo of Pittosporum eugenioides updated. A total of 210 New Zealand native plants are described.
Find NZ plants – added 9 February 2008 (help with finding New Zealand plants in the UK, Netherlands, New Zealand and USA)
Introduction to NZ plants – updated 29 December 2007 (link added to a comparison between New Zealand and British Isles floras)
Site map – updated February 2025 (details of Hebe News Archive added)
Search site – added 19 February 2005 (search available and powered by FreeFind)
Links – updated February 2025 (links added to: Orange Cat Flooring Atlanta GA, Tree Surgeon Gravesend UK, and January 2025 edition of News Blast!)
Donate – updated 23 December 2019
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