Plant in coastal full sun or light shade and irrigate regularly to occasionally. Can survive temperatures down to about 10 degrees F. This is a great small-scale groundcover that flows outward with branches near the extremities flat to the ground. Good for covering banks, spilling over walls or as a filler in large containers. A very useful plant in near coastal situations.

Coprosma x kirkii is a naturally occurring and variable hybrid that occurs in areas where the range of Coprosma repens and Coprosma acerosa overlap in both the North Island and South Island of New Zealand. The plant long cultivated in New Zealand (since at least the 1930s!) is a prostate selection with small linear oblong green leaves and this plant was officially called Coprosma x kirkii 'Kirkii'. It is from this plant that this variegated selection was selected, making its full name Coprosma x kirkii 'Kirkii Variegata' but it has long been grown as Coprosma x kirkii 'Variegata so we have left this as its name. We have grown this great plant since 1999. 

The information displayed on this page about Coprosma x kirkii 'Variegata' is based on the research we conducted about it in our nursery horticultural library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include some of our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.