| 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.
      | Cordyline australis
Red Sensation cordylines are a great foliage plant for creating interest in the garden. Also known as Aussie Outdoor Palms, cordylines in general are hardy, low maintenance plants good for modern gardens and pots too. With their sword like leaves and striking colour, red cordylines are a fantastic foliage plant for contrast. They can grow to 1 meter wide by 1.5 meters high, or be trimmed once a year and kept smaller. | |
| 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. | For more information on cordylines, also known as Aussie Outdoor Palms, visit our 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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| botanical name |
Cordyline australis
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| height x width |
2m x 1m
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| features |
Lovely ruby-red to burgundy sword shaped leaves
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Color contrast, feature plant, pots,
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