Cultivars
'Beatsons Gold'
This dense shrub grows to 2m (6ft) tall and wide and has small green-yellow variegated leaves. This plant may be difficult to obtain outside New Zealand.

'Evening Glow'
This shrub grows to 1.5m (5ft) tall by 1m (3ft) wide and has green leaves that are splashed in gold-colour and turn orange-red during autumn to winter.
It is suitable for coastal regions and is used for hedging, tolerating a regular prune and rockeries or as a container specimen. It grows in full sun to semi-shade tolerating most well drained fertile soils and has a low water requirement once established.

'Gold Splash'
The leaves on this plant have a broad golden yellow margin. It is suitable for coastal regions and is used for hedging, tolerating a regular prune and rockeries or as a container specimen. It is excellent for colour contrast and has a low water requirement once established.

'Karo Red' PBR
This shrub grows to 1m (3ft) tall but may become broad up to 2m (6ft) wide and has green to bronze foliage that changes colour throughout the season. It is ideal for low borders in small gardens and tolerates a regular prune to form a hedge. It is suitable for coastal positions in full sun and is drought tolerant once established. This small shrub is also grown in containers and is excellent foliage contrast in a low border.

'Marble Queen'
The small shrub has woody stems that form a compact habit and has glossy leaves that are variegated with cream. It is suitable for coastal regions and is used for hedging, tolerating a regular prune and rockeries or as a container specimen. It has a low water requirement once established.

'Middlemore'
This upright shrub to 2m (6ft) tall has glossy dark green leaves and forms a dense bushy habit. It is suitable for coastal regions and can be trimmed to form a low hedge.

'Picturata'
The small shrub produces glossy leaves with a central yellow blotch. It is suitable for coastal regions and is used for hedging, tolerating a regular prune and rockeries or as a container specimen. It has a low water requirement once established.

'Pink Splendor'
This shrub has pink tinge to the leaves. It is suitable for coastal regions and is used for hedging, tolerating a regular prune and rockeries or as a container specimen. It has a low water requirement once established.

Weed Potential      
As a weedMirror Bush is invasive in coastal regions of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia invading habitats including dunes or coastal woodlands and forests inhibiting the development of native tree or shrub seedlings.

The shrub can grow in a variety of poorly to well drained soils in sunny to shaded exposed or protected position. It is tolerant of salt laden winds and hot dry periods once established and the female plant produces many viable seeds. The seeds are dispersed by birds and in garden waste or in soil.

Controlmethods include physically digging out seedlings checking that all the roots are removed. Shrubs with fruiting branches should be bagged and removed off site. They may also have the trunk scraped or drilled, then paint with a non-selective herbicide.

Small plant or seedlings may also be sprayed with a non-selective herbicide with the addition of a surfactant added to help penetrate the waxy leaf surface though this is not commonly implemented. A follow up spray will be required over the next 2 years and a rehabilitation program will need to be implemented in fragile sites such as dunes to avoid erosion.