| Description | Pyrus calleryana
Bradford Ornamental Pear, a fast growing – thick and glossy, dark green, heart shaped leaves. Autumn colours are reds, oranges, purples and yellows. Clusters of small white flowers in early spring. Suitable as a feature tree.
Pyramid in shape – becomes broad with age.
Growth in Melbourne, Victoria – Height: 6 Meters Width: 6 Meters
100 litre bag - approx 2.5m tall (Please call to confirm height, as heights change often throughout the seasons.) | 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 | Ornamental pear trees are fast growing, tolerant of most soil types, including heavy and poor soils, and best of all they come in a range of shapes and sizes to suit your landscaping requirements.
Check out our Ornamental Pear Tree Factsheet for more info. | 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. | |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Pyrus calleryana "Bradford"
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| height x width |
9m x 5m
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| features |
Attractive shiny foliage that turns spectacular colors of orange-red, reddish-purple and yellow red and says on the tree well into the end of autumn, masses of white flowers are borne in spring
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| conditions |
Very hardy, prefers full sun in well drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, avenue, street tree, small and medium gardens, can be trimmed or espaliered
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| 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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