| 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
8"/20 pot size.
      | Banksia integrifolia
Banksia integrifolia or ‘Coastal Banksia’ is a hardy native found down the Eastern coastline of Australia. Often seen in windswept and sculptural shapes along beach fronts, when placed in a less hostile environment, they can become quite beautiful, bushy specimen plants. They grow anywhere between 4m - 10m and 1m - 5m wide, depending on their environment. During autumn and winter their yellow flowers form into large cones, rich with nectar. These stunning flowers attract lots of bird life, particularly cockatoos and honey-eaters. Coastal Banksia is a slow grower and can handle a wide range of soil types.
10" pot size. | |
| Content | Why buy the 8" Pot English Box (20cm pot) size?
Standing at roughly 30-40cm tall (depending on the time of year), these 8" pots of English Box (Buxus sempervirens) are very bushy and large plants, great for an instant semi-established hedge.
This is the largest size English Box we regularly stock, before they become quite expensive. What you are paying for when you buy English Box in a 20cm pot is the time and care it took to get the plant to get up to that size.
What makes English Box low maintenance is that it's actually slow growing. It only needs 1-2 trims a year to keep a neat formal shape. BUT the trade off is that if you start with small English Box plants, you might wait years to get a fully established box hedge or border.
In reality it takes several growing seasons for English Box to reach an 8" pot size, and it's all that time and care you're paying for. When viewed this way, the price of large English Box plants is often worth it, especially if you want a great looking box hedge relatively quickly.
View more info about growing English Box on our fact sheet.
Please note: During Winter, it is common for discolouration to occur 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.
Here's more info on why your English Box might be turning bronze when it's cold. | | |
| 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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| botanical name |
Banksia integrifolia
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| height x width |
5m x 3m
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| features |
Cones of yellow brush like flowers during autumn, dark green leaves with white underneath, bird attracting, good hardy coastal tree, lime tolerant
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade
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| landscape use |
Cut flower arrangements, screens, windbreaks, hedges and specimens
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