INSTANT HEDGE - THE PERFECT TIME TO PLANT IS NOW
Botanical Name: Buxus Microphylla Japonica 400mm Pot
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Common Name: Japanese Box
Current Height (from the top of the pot) 650mm & very thick and bushy
This compact evergreen shrub will provide any garden with glossy green, neat greenery, ideal for hedging and borders. The Japanese Box is easily maintained and whilst it isn't decorative, it provides simplicity to any type of garden.
Features:
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- Evergreen shrub
- Bright green glossy leaves
- The small apetalous flowers are produced in the upper leaf axils, perfumed.
- Not decorative.
- Shiny bright green in the growing season aging to dark green.
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Position:
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Full sun, part shade
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Ideal For:
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- Hedging
- Edging
- Container Plants
- Topiary
- Specimen shrub
- Potted greenery
- Barrier,
- Entryway
- Foundation plant
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Plant Apart:
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250mm for hedging.
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Height at Maturity:
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0.5 – 2.0m
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Environment Conditions:
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- Soil:
- Prefers moist soils
- Tolerates a wide range of soils (mildly acidic to mildly alkaline)
- Should be well drained
- Moisture:
- Little watering once established
- Will tolerate drier conditions
- Climate:
- Excels in warmer climates
- Grows in cool, temperate, arid, semi-arid, mild tropical and tropical climates
- Tolerates frost
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Care:
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- Optimal growth if plant is kept evenly moist
- Will tolerate short periods of drought if watered corected
- Use high nitrogen fertilisers to encourage new growth
- Will survive without fertiliser once established but will grow at a slower pace
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Design:
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- Formal gardens
- Coastal gardens
- Pollution affected gardens
- Mesic landscape design themes
- Can be used in parterre gardens to create elaborate patterns
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HEDGING PLANT
Dont be fooled by cheap & small Buxus.
We have hundreds in stock and they are a MINIMUM of & Very Bushy.
No Further Discounts Apply