| Description | Syzygium australe
Grow a thick, bushy hedge in no time. What you do behind it is your business!
• Thick, glossy green hedging with red tinged new growth
• Australian native
• Easy to maintain and fast growing | Erigeron karvinskianus
Daisy Spray or Seaside Daisy is a hardy perennial shrub with little daisy flowers of pink and white.
• Only grows 15cm tall!
• Perfect for borders, pots and the cottage style garden
• Tolerates heat, drought, poor soils and frost
3"/7cm pot size | Nandina domestica 'Nana'
'Sacred Bamboo' or more commonly known as Dwarf Nandina, is a self shaping, non-flowering shrub with colourful foliage.
• Green foliage in summer that changes to vibrant red in winter
• Very low maintenance and incredibly hardy
• Perfect for borders, edging, pots & containers.
3"/7cm pot size, approximately 7-10cm in height. | 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.
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| Content | Neighbours-Be-Gone Trees can grow two or more metres per year once established. Neighbours-Be-Gone Trees have deep green, dense, fine foliage and copper red new growth and can grow two or more metres per year once established, and love to be clipped and shaped. They grow in full sun through to light shade and withstand mild frost, wind, heat and drought. They thrive in almost any soil including heavy wet and occasionally waterlogged soils.
Neighbours-Be-Gone Trees can be used to create tall screens, large hedges and large topiary. They can be planted in pots or confined areas. Although they have the potential to grow into large trees, their size can be contained by regular clipping. The trunk and roots only grow to serve the needs of the crown of the tree, so the trunk and root system will remain small, while the tree is being kept small by regular trimming. Neighbours-Be-Gone Trees are a long living tree that don’t become woody or sick from long-term regular pruning. A well maintained Neighbours-Be-Gone Tree hedge or topiary can last for many decades.
Neighbours-Be-Gone Trees are a select form of Acmena smithii and are exclusive to Hello Hello Plants. They were developed by Chris 20 years ago, and Neighbours Be Gone is actually a trademark that belongs to the Hello Hello group of companies.
Back in 2003 Chris was holidaying in Los Angeles and noticed that the most popular hedge was an Australian Native Lilly Pilly. At that time, the main hedge being grown in Melbourne was the Silver Sheen Pittosporum, and Lilly Pilly's were a product that was shipped down from Queensland. They were expensive, and many of the Queensland varieties did poorly in Victoria.
Chris decided to make a Lilly Pilly hedge that was tailor made for Melbourne. He chose a variety of Lilly Pilly that had been cultivated and had done well in Melbourne for the last 100 years. It grows all year round, is tough, drought tolerant and hedges beautifully. Now the "Neighbours Be Gone" is one of Melbourne's most popular hedges!
For more information on this great hedging and screening plant, see it's Growing Guide. | Daisy Spray or Erigeron karvinskianus, that will grow into a compact mound 60 cm in diameter and 40 cm tall. Daisy Spray Erigeron retains its compact shape & dosen’t self-sow and spread throughout the garden. Daisy Spray Erigeron’s soft pink & white daisy flowers are borne in a densely massed profusion for most of the year. Take a look at our fact sheet on Daisy Spray to find out more information. | | 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. |
| Additional information |
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| botanical-name |
Buxus sempervirens
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| height-x-width |
Up to 1.2 metres, or trimmed lower
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| planting-distance |
For border: 5 per metre For low border, 3 or 4 per metre For taller hedge
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| features |
Traditional slower growing neat hedge or border with glossy oval dark green leaves
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade, moist well drained soil
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| landscape-use |
Hedges, borders, topiary, mazes, containers and general garden planting
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