| Description | Lysimachia nummularia
What an attractive alternative to your regular old lawn or groundcover, Lysimachia Creeping Jenny gives an instant wow factor to any garden! The fast growing vibrant green rounded foliage creates a soft carpet, which is safe for medium foot traffic. Creeping Jenny is not only limited to lawns. It makes quite a show spilling over retaining walls, cascading down hanging baskets or as a highlight in an otherwise dreary garden bed.
Creeping Jenny prefers moist well draining soil but can tolerate periods of dry. Grows in full shade - full sun quite happily provided there is moisture in the soil. If in a full sun position with poor soil and little water you will find it will not creep as very far but will retain its colour and vigour.
6"/14cm pot size. | 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
10"/25cm pot size.
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| Content | | 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.
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| Additional information | |
| 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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