| 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
6"/14cm pot size. Need lots? Check out our English Box bulk deal, even cheaper.
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Gold Bunny produces large classical shaped golden yellow blooms from Spring to Autumn. It is mass flowering, fragrant, and repeat flowering. Suitable for cut flowers. | Pittosporum tenuifolium
Pittosporum Screenmaster is a fast-growing evergreen shrub that can grow up to 1 meter per year. Features medium green foliage and fine dark brown stems. Requires reasonable drainage but grows well in most soils. Keep moist when establishing and during dry periods. Ideal for hedging or screening.
A hardy drought-tolerant species once established. Prune to maintain shape and size. |
| Content | Why buy 6" pot English Box?
English Box is a fantastic plant low hedge or border plant that looks great in pretty much any garden style and can cope with Melbourne's extreme 4 season days. The 6" pot, or 14cm English Box size is a good medium size English Box plant for establishing a box hedge or border cheaply but faster than choosing the cheapest size of English Box.
Due of our close relationship with suppliers and purchasing in massive quantities we are able to pass our savings over to you, the customer. As such, we have always been able to offer ridiculously low prices on our high quality plants. And in some cases we offer plants that are well below wholesale and trade prices.
Our individual 6” English Box is already usually cheaper than any other retail nursery in Melbourne, but when you buy in bulk you can get it for even less. Check out our bulk buy deal on 6" English Box.
The advantages of English Box hedge and border is that it only requires one or two trimmings per year. It needs very little water and it grows in almost any soil, except for a very heavy or poorly drained soil. 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.
Click here to view our English Box Factsheet for more information.
Please note: During winter, it is common for discoloration on the foliage of English box. It is due to severe frosts, where our products are grown in the coldest parts of Victoria. They will sort themselves out in spring, however, if it does bother you, please treat with Dolomite Lime, and a slow release fertilizer a month later. | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | |
| Additional information |
| Botanical Name |
Buxus sempervirens
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| Planting Distance |
5 per metre for low border, 3 or 4 per metre for taller hedge
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| Max Height |
6m
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| Max Width |
2m
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| Toxic To |
Non-toxic
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| Prune Me |
3-5 times a year
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| Planting Distance |
1 per metre
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| Size Maintained at |
2.5m
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| Uses |
Hedging & Screening
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| Foliage Colour |
Green
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| Fragrance |
None
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| Flowering |
No
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| Botanical Name |
Pittosporum tenuifolium Screenmaster PBR
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| Sunshine |
Full Sun, Part Shade
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| Fertilise Me |
November, October, September
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| Fertilizer Frequency |
Annually
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| Fruit / Seed |
No
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| Growth Speed |
Fast
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| Leaf Drop |
Evergreen
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| Origin |
New Zealand
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| Other Common Names |
Kohuhu, Tawhiwhi
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| pH |
Acidic, Alkaline, Neutral
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| Plant Type |
Shrub
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| Soil Type |
Loam, Loamy – Clay, Sandy – Loam, Well drained
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| Tolerances |
Pollution Tolerant, Poor Soil Tolerant, Frost Tolerant, Salt Tolerant, Heat Tolerant, Drought Tolerant
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| Water Requirement |
Low
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