A popular, compact hebe covered in masses of small, white flowers from spring to summer. The flowers fade to soft pink as they age, creating a beautiful two-tone effect with white and pink blooms on the same plant. The flowers are small but numerous, covering the shrub in a soft, pastel blanket. A shrub that changes its mind about colour. The plant has small, glossy, dark green leaves that provide a rich background for the flowers. The leaves are oval-shaped, up to 2 centimetres long, with a smooth, shiny surface. The stems are slender and branching, forming a compact, spreading shrub. A plant that knows how to frame a picture. Hebe Wiri Grace is extremely hardy, tolerating drought, frost, wind and coastal conditions. It is excellent for borders, mass plantings and coastal gardens, where its long flowering season provides colour for months. A plant that does not complain about the weather. The cultivar was bred at Auckland Botanic Gardens and is part of the Wiri series of hebes, a group of cultivars known for their hardiness and profuse flowering. It is named Wiri Grace for its graceful, spreading habit and profuse flowering. A plant designed by people who knew what they wanted. To find Hebe Wiri Grace is to look in gardens and borders throughout New Zealand. It is a plant of cultivation, not of the wild. The masses of white and pink flowers are a soft cloud in the garden, a graceful presence in the border. The garden is quiet. The hebe blooms, white fading to pink, covered in bees. It does not know it was bred in a botanic garden. It does not know it has a name. It just blooms. That is what it was made to do.