| Description | Lonicera nitida
Fast growing, fine leaf box hedging and topiary plant with a defined edge.
• Get your box hedge or topiary twice as fast!
• Responds very well to pruning, becoming beautifully dense
• Tolerates very poor soils and hot conditions | Imperata cylindrica rubra
Japanese blood grass is grown for its decorative foliage. The leaves emerge green at the base with tips blood red.
The vivid red colour increases in summer and is at its best in autumn. Japanese Blood Grass is a very good accent plant. It prefers a full sun position and can be planted near ponds or other water features.
6''/14cm pot
Please note: These plants die off during winter and go dormant with light brown foliage, they will come back every year with colour from Spring. | Fraxinus oxycarpa 'Raywoodii'
An attractive, some say fast growing deciduous tree with an upright growth habit and open canopy. The foliage is deep green and narrow in summer and as autumn approaches, turns a rich claret colour, hence the name. This is a beautiful tree with stunning autumn colours, tolerant of frost and drought. Mature height 12m H x 7m W | Rosa floribunda
Friesia Rose is an upright growing, compact bush with large amounts of double flowers with a strong fragrance and showy bright yellow colour. Available in many different variations. |
| Content | BoxOz Lonicera has been specially developed by Chris, and is our exclusive hedging plant. It has a deeper green foliage, a denser finish and more clearly defined shape than the traditional English Box.
BoxOz Lonicera is the best plant with which to create your perfect hedge or border as it grows quickly and once your hedge has developed its easy to maintain with only a few trimmings a year. New shoots are soft and easy to cut and trimming is an effortless relaxing experience.
Some traditional hedging plants grow only an inch or two a year. BoxOz Lonicera will produce a calf high border in under twelve months, a knee high hedge in around 18 months, and a waist high hedge in 30 months. Almost any soil is suitable, as long as it is not too swampy. Fertilise your BoxOz Lonicera occasionally with a complete fertiliser, and water as required. | | | 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. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. |
| Additional information |
| height-x-width |
Up to 1.2 metres, or trimmed lower
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| planting-distance |
For border: 5 per metre For dense bushy hedge or border
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| features |
Small attractive deep green leaves, fast growing
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well drained soil, trim regularly to promote bushy growth and maintain formal shape
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| landscape-use |
Hedges, borders and topiary
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| botanical name |
Imperata cylindrica "Rubra"
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| height x width |
50cm x 50cm
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| features |
showy decorative grass with upright green flushed dark red foliage, the vivid red color increases in summer and is at its best in autumn
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| conditions |
Plant in full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
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| landscape use |
Ideal for pots, garden beds and groups for an instant color effect
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| botanical-name |
Fraxinus oxycarpa ?Raywood?
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| height-x-width |
10m x 8m
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| features |
Fine pinnate deep green leaves that turn rich claret color in autumn, a great color contrast
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| conditions |
Full sun in well drained soil
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| landscape-use |
Specimen, parks, street, avenues, driveways, shade tree
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