| Description | Acmena smithii
Native Australian hedging & screening plant. Hardy evergreen with glossy leaves, which are red when young and then turn a dark green.
While Neighbours-Be-Gone is our most outstanding Lilly Pilly variety for all purposes, we do recommend Lilly Pilly Acmena Smithii Select when you have particularly poor conditions. It is slower growing but more tolerant of very poor soil.
8" pot size. | 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 | Rosa hybrid tea
Lolita Rose is a pretty two-toned rose with mixed shades of apricot and pink. It is vigorous, has moderate disease resistance, and a fresh fragrance. Also great for cut flowers.
Available to purchase online, not in-store. | Casuarina glauca
Casuarina Green Wave is a tough Australian native with evergreen foliage year-round that will form a natural ball shape without needing hedging or maintenance. Mature growth 1.5 x 1.5m.
| Rosa
Blushing Pierre De Ronsard is a beautiful rose with old-fashioned creamy white petal-filled flowers that bloom constantly and carry an airy classic rose scent. During cooler weather, the blooms often have a delicate light pink hue. This climbing rose is a true masterpiece and is ideal for covering arches, pillars, and pergolas.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Prunus amereniaca
Moorpark is a favourite well-known apricot with excellent flavour. The fruit are a little smaller but the flavour they provide is much more intense, and they ripen in January through February.
Moorpark is compact and self fertile, and does well in dry Summers. This is an ideal tree for producing yummy fruit as well as adding some interest to your garden.
16"/40cm pot size. This product is espaliered, meaning it's been woven onto lattice. |
| 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. | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
| |
