Are you open? Our open hours are just below the phone number you found to call us on. Home page- (first page) of website. Is such and such a product you have advertised as available on your website available? No comment. ( I get this phone call about 3 times a day on average)…
Read moreThings are chugging along. We have had a full week of no rain and it feels a little bit fantastic. I’m not keen on jinxing it so will say no more about that. Charlie boy, my gentle, frail 14 year old ginger puss has had a tough week. After an overnight stint for him mid-week…
Read moreOver the past 6 weeks during Lockdown, I’ve spent a lot of my time weeding. And thinking. And, like many people I suspect, re-evaluating and reflecting. Weeding is very meditative, it allows my mind to wander and dream up new ways of running my business more efficiently. I enjoyed lockdown for the enforced break it…
Read moreInteresting times indeed, however Coast Palms and Cycads was very well set up for Level 3 with a terrific online presence already. You will find the 3 easy steps to ordering from us online here We will be able to dispatch all purchases and start local deliveries from Tuesday 28 April. Which is really good…
Read moreWe here at Coast Palms and Cycads are amping for our summer break. By the end of these ridiculously hot days we all feel like barbequed prawns and we get a little fractious with each other. Working in 30deg celcius heat with high humidity is fairly taxing so I am more than likely going to…
Read moreThese are all currently out in bloom and looking stunning.
Read moreWinter is upon us and it is the time to get all hygge with hot chocolate, interesting reads, warm blankets and a good bit of friendship and enjoyment of the company and kindness of others. We are finding it quite tricky to define hygge in a Coast Palms and Cycads way using palm trees, subtropicals…
Read moreWe’ve had plenty of really nice feedback on our sale. Lots of new customers taking the opportunity to do a total garden purchase for new homes as well as many gardening friends coming in to do a wee purchase to spruce up a tired or bland spot. People coming over from Whakatane, coming down from…
Read moreThis is the Autumn sale to end all autumn sales. March 2th to March 16th- 2 WHOLE WEEKS! 3 WHOLE Saturdays! Now extended to end 4.30pm Saturday March 30th!! We are now enjoying the cooler days finally, and it’s time for a long awaited sale. We are in full sale mode from tomorrow and it’s…
Read moreAn absolute deluge of people phoning up and asking us if we want to buy their palm, cycad or un-identifiable plant over the last month. C’mon peeps- give us a break! We have advertised for 14 years solid that we are not buyers of plants…we are sellers of our own plants…all 35 000 of them….
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