| Name | Buxus 'English Box' 2" Pot remove | Gaura 'Pink' Butterfly Bush 6″ Pot remove | Quercus 'English Oak' 10" Pot remove | Banksia Rose 'Yellow' 6" Pot remove | Nasturtium 'Black Velvet' 4" Pot remove |
| Image |  |  |  |  |  |
| SKU | ENGB2 | GAURAN27 | ENGOKN | BANKRN35 | NASALN60 |
| Rating | | | | | |
| Price | $2.99 | $14.99 | $89.99 | $17.99 | $10.99 |
| Stock | | | Out of stock
| | |
| Availability | | | Out of stock | | |
| Add to cart | Add to cart
| Add to cart
| Read more
| Add to cart
| Add to cart
|
| Description | Buxus sempervirens
English Box is Melbourne’s most popular box hedging and topiary plant.
• Low maintenance, only requiring 1-2 prunings a year
• Evergreen with no flowers
• Can be used for hedging, topiary balls, cones, squares, spirals and standards
2''/4cm pot size.
      | Gaura lindheimeri "Butterfly Bush"
Butterfly Bush is a bushy, hardy perennial shrub with long graceful stems that bloom with pale pink flowers in spring-summer. These stems grow up to 1m long, but can be clipped back shorter, and sway gracefully in the breeze. The name of a popular variety, Whirling Butterflies, perfectly describes the way the plant resembles a cloud of butterflies when swaying in the breeze.
6" pot size. | Quercus robur
English Oaks are famous for being solid and strong. The trunk and secondary branches are very solid and are covered in thick blackish-grey bark which makes it quite a sight.
The autumn foliage is a rich, dark brown. As the foliage is smaller than other deciduous trees, fallen leaves are not particularly difficult to eliminate and will not clog drains.
10"/25cm pot | Rosa banksiae
The Banksia Rose is a tough evergreen climbing rose with soft ruffled yellow flowers which appear in Spring. Like Iceberg Roses, it's prized as a disease resistant and hardy rose. It works well as a groundcover rose or a climber when given a support such as a trellis.
The Banksia rose is an incredibly useful and versatile climber or groundcover as it is low maintenance, thornless and tolerates full sun and part shade.
6"/14cm pot size. | Nasturtium
This variety produces very dark red flowers and dark green foliage. This is a hardy annual which is bush forming and and great for borders, hanging baskets and rockeries. The flowers are edible, and can be used similar to zucchini flowers.
4"/10cm pot |
| Content | Growing English Box
English Box grows in full sun through to the very deepest shade. In fact English Box will grow with no direct sunlight. English Box is the best of the low borders when you have a border that is partly in full sun and partly in deep shade.
For perfect English Box borders and hedges, we recommend a spacing of 5 plants per metre. The secret to making perfect English Box borders and hedges is to space your English Box closely.
Often people plant their English Box too far apart and they take forever to fill in. English Box tend to shoot upward instead of outward when they are younger. If English Box is spaced too far apart there will be upside down ‘U’ shaped gaps at the bottom of the hedge. One old English gardening book said to plant English Box 1 inch apart. At Chris & Marie’s Plant Farms we have found over the years that planting English Box at the rate of 5 per metre will create a dense bushy border in just a few years without making it unnecessarily expensive to establish a border.
For more information, visit our English Box Factsheet. | | | | |
| Weight | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Dimensions | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Additional information |
| botanical-name |
Buxus sempervirens
|
| height-x-width |
Up to 1.2 metres, or trimmed lower
|
| planting-distance |
For border: 5 per metre For low border, 3 or 4 per metre For taller hedge
|
| features |
Traditional slower growing neat hedge or border with glossy oval dark green leaves
|
| conditions |
Full sun to part shade, moist well drained soil
|
| landscape-use |
Hedges, borders, topiary, mazes, containers and general garden planting
|
|
| botanical name |
Gaura lindheimeri
|
| height x width |
1.2m x 1m
|
| features |
Masses of sprays of beautiful white flowers opening from pink buds along the stems are borne from spring to autumn
|
| conditions |
Full sun in light well-drained soil, cut back hard after flowering
|
| landscape use |
Background planting, flower borders, color, general garden planting,
|
| |
| height x width |
Climber to 3-4m
|
| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 70cm
|
| conditions |
Very hardy, likes full sun and well-drained soil
|
| landscape use |
fences, screens, cover unattractive sheds, pergolas, arbors, rotundas, trellis
|
| |
