| Description | High-quality German Terracotta pots for indoor and outdoor use with feature plants.
- Waterproof and frost-tolerant
- Lightweight
Approximate weight: 0.73kgs. | A box hedging plant for the difficult garden. Box Leaf Privet are a great option for tall, narrow, non-flowering hedges.
• Grows in any soils providing it's moderately draining
• Does not like shady areas but will tolerate drought and frost
• Fast growing | Pennisetum alopecuroides
Common names: Native foxtail Grass, Swamp foxtail grass, Chinese swamp grass.
A native grass common in Australia and Asia that gets its name from the flower resembling a fox's tail. It is a green-leaved ornamental grass with an arching habit and creamy white flowers with a small amount of purple inside. It can handle any soil, is drought tolerant and will mature to 90x90cm.
(Not to be confused with Pennisetum setaceum)
3"/7cm pot | Coral Meidiland Rose
The Coral Meidiland rose has delicate pink buds which open into bright coral-salmon, single blooms with a white eye that have a light fragrance.
A vigorous, bushy continual blooming plant with dark green, very dense foliage. Excellent resistance to mildew and black-spot.
13" pot size, approximately 6ft in height.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Lavandula dentata
French Lavender Monet produces beautiful silvery-grey green foliage and purple flowers that are perfect for adding colour to your garden! These evergreens thrive in a position of full sunlight. This variety works great in the garden or pots/containers.
See our Lavandula - Lavender Factsheet here for more about the different Lavender varieties!
For care instructions, features and more, check out Additional Information below | Rosa Hybrid Tea
Large double pink and white-streaked blooms on an upright and vigorous bush with a beautiful fragrance.
Bush Rose | Rosmarinus officinalis 'Common Rosemary'
Rosemary is a dense herb shrub with masses of fragrant, thin, dark green leaves, usually with small blue flowers. It's drought resistant and can be picked when required.
It goes great with lamb, pork, chicken, fish, vinegar, lemons, potatoes and onions to name just a few.
4"/10cm pot | Stachys byzantina (syn. lanata)
Irresistibly soft, furry silver foliage, the 'Lambs Ear' is a must have in every Cottage garden.
• Tall purple flowers
• Looks great in pots, rockeries, along pathways and mass planted
• Tolerates dry soils
6"/14cm pot size. |
| Content | | Why buy Box Leaf Privet?
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Box Leaf Privet is one of the most popular hedging plants as it grows all year round, it will grow in almost any soil or conditions, and if it is kept trimmed it looks as good or better than English Box. Box Leaved Privet loves hot sunny positions (they don’t do well in a shady corner) and almost any soil as long as it is moderately well drained.
To create a dense bushy low hedge or border you only need to plant 4 plants per metre. Box Leaf Privet loves plenty of water, regular fertilising and regular trimming. Given these are provided, you will find that you can create a dense fine traditional or English Box style border in just one full growing season with very little cost.
- Great for hedging and low borders
- Fast growing
- Drought and frost tolerant
Chris says: “For a fast growing box hedge that is versatile and hardy, you can’t go past the Box Leaf Privet. This attractive border plant is drought, salt AND frost tolerant and will grow in both full sun or part shade. It is a fantastic alternative that will look just as good if not better than the English Box. ”
Check out our Box Leaf Privet fact sheet for more info.
[/one_half_last] | | 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. | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last tow 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.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. | | |
| Additional information | |
| botanical-name |
Ligustrum undulatum
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| height-x-width |
Up to 1.2 metres, or trimmed lower, can grow a 2-3foot hedge in 12 months
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| planting-distance |
For border: 4 per metre For dense bushy hedge or border
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| features |
Rich green lush foliage, which will give a traditional style finish but grow very quickly
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| conditions |
Will grow in very poor or heavy soils, full sun to part shade, trim regularly to promote bushy growth and maintain formal shape
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| landscape-use |
Low borders and medium hedges, excellent for formal landscapes or edging and topiary
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Border, rockeries, groundcover
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