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Borders up to 1m
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Hedges 1-2.5m |
Screens 2.5m plus |
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Borders up to 1m |
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your garden bed receives at least ½ a day of full sun or more and you have
average well-drained soil these border plants are suitable for your garden
situation. |
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BoxOz® Lonicera |
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Botanical
Name: |
Lonicera nitida |
| Height x
width: |
Up to 1.2 metres, or
trimmed lower |
| Planting
distance for border: |
5 per metre for dense
bushy hedge or border |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
well drained soils, trim regularly to promote bushy growth and
maintain formal shape |
| Features: |
Small attractive deep
green leaves, fast growing |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, borders and topiary. |
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Boxwood™
Lonicera |
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Botanical
Name: |
Select form of Lonicera
nitida |
| Height x
width: |
Up to 2m, but usually kept
between ½ to 1m |
| Planting
distance for border: |
4 per metre for dense
bushy hedge or border. |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
well drained soil, trim regularly to promote bushy growth and
maintain formal shape |
| Features: |
Rich glossy green small
foliage all year, very fast growing, can be trimmed into bushy
topiary shapes |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, topiary, border pathways,
driveways or living division for garden areas, pots. |
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Box Leaved Privet |
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Botanical
Name: |
Ligustrum undulatum |
| Height x
width: |
Up to 1.2 metres, or
trimmed lower, can grow a 2-3 foot hedge in 12 months |
| Planting
distance for border: |
4 per metre for dense
bushy hedge or border |
| Conditions: |
Will grow in very poor or
heavy soils, full sun to part shade, trim regularly to promote bushy
growth and maintain formal shape |
| Features: |
Rich green lush foliage,
which will give a traditional style finish but grow very quickly |
| Landscape
use: |
Low borders and medium hedges,
excellent for formal landscapes or edging and topiary |
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Bloom ‘in Box™ Cuphea
‘pink’ |
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Botanical
Name: |
Cuphea hyssopifolia
‘select form’ |
| Height x
width: |
40cm x40cm |
| Planting
distance for border: |
4 or 5 per metre |
| Conditions: |
Sun to part shade
in moist well-drained soils
keep free from heavy frosts and swampy
soils. |
| Features: |
Rich glossy box like
foliage, which is covered with tiny bright fuchsia
picnic flowers for most
of the year |
| Landscape
use: |
Loves to be trimmed and shaped, borders,
topiary balls or cones, pots or mass planted as a sculptured shrubby
groundcover around trees and shrubs |
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Bloom ‘in Box™
Cuphea ‘white’ |
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Botanical
Name: |
Cuphea hyssopifolia
‘select form’ |
| Height x
width: |
40cm x40cm |
| Planting
distance for border: |
4 or 5 per metre |
| Conditions: |
Sun to part shade
in moist well-drained soils
keep free from heavy frosts and swampy
soils. |
| Features: |
Rich glossy box like
foliage, which is covered with tiny white flowers for most of the
year. |
| Landscape
use: |
Loves to be trimmed and shaped, borders,
topiary balls or cones, pots or mass planted as a sculptured shrubby
groundcover around trees and shrubs |
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Mondo grass
‘tall’ |
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Botanical
Name: |
Ophiopogon japonicus |
| Height x
width: |
30cm x 30cm |
| Planting
distance for border: |
5 per metre, note:
plants
may be divided. |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to shade, can be
planted in most soil types |
| Features: |
Has a soft look that
complements cottage garden to lush tropical gardens, formal,
contemporary and modern landscapes. |
| Landscape
use: |
Borders around low growing plants,
paths, edges and in front of low hedges to create a layered effect,
also look great planted in and around plants in pots. |
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Mondo grass
‘dwarf’ |
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Botanical
Name: |
Ophiopogon japonicus |
| Height x
width: |
10cm x 10cm |
| Planting
distance for border: |
8 per metre, note: pots
may be divided |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to shade, can be
planted in most soil types |
| Features: |
Has a soft look that
complements cottage garden to lush tropical gardens, formal,
contemporary and modern landscapes. |
| Landscape
use: |
Borders around low growing plants,
paths, edges and in front of low hedges to create a layered effect,
also look great planted in and around plants in pots. |
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Bongo Borders®
Liriope |
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Botanical
Name: |
Liriope gigantea
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| Height x
width: |
80cm x 60cm |
| Planting
distance for border: |
50-60cm |
| Conditions: |
Very hardy, likes full sun
to shade in well-drained soils |
| Features: |
Dense, rich and glossy
dark green grass like plant, great for a range of garden styles. |
| Landscape
use: |
A border which never has to be trimmed,
pots, lush foliage great for tropical gardens, stylish
looks great for modern gardens,
even compliments cottage gardens. |
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English Box |
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Botanical
Name: |
Buxus sempervirens |
| Height x
width: |
Up to 1.2 metres, or
trimmed lower |
| Planting
distance for border: |
5 per metre for low
border, 3 or 4 per metre for taller hedge |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade,
moist well drained soils |
| Features: |
Traditional slower growing
neat hedge or border with glossy oval dark green leaves |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, borders, topiary, mazes,
containers and general garden plantings. |
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Dutch box |
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Botanical
Name: |
Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa'’ |
| Height x
width: |
Up to 1m, but usually kept
quite low as slow growing |
| Planting
distance for border: |
5 or 6 per metre |
| Conditions: |
Sun to part shade in
moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate a wide range of soils
and conditions, clip to maintain formal shape |
| Features: |
An evergreen dwarf shrub
with glossy green oval foliage and a dense growth habit |
| Landscape
use: |
Edges and borders, topiary, pots and
general garden plantings, widely used in formal gardens |
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Japanese Box |
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Botanical
Name: |
Buxus microphylla var
koreana |
| Height x
width: |
Up to 1m, or cut back to
desired height |
| Planting
distance for border: |
25cm |
| Conditions: |
Sun to part shade in
well-drained soils. |
| Features: |
Glossy fine oval-shaped
green leaves |
| Landscape
use: |
Low border, formal border, mazes,
topiary |
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Tom Thumb |
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Botanical
Name: |
Euonymus fortunei,
Euonymus japonicas microphyllus |
| Height x
width: |
50cm x 50cm |
| Planting
distance for border: |
Planting distance for
border: 4 per metre |
| Conditions: |
Very hardy, will thrive in
most soils but prefers full sun to part shade in well drained soils |
| Features: |
Dense compact glossy dark
green narrow leaves on a dwarf bush |
| Landscape
use: |
Low hedge, borders, topiary, containers
for patios and courtyards |
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Daisy
Spray™ Erigeron |
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Botanical
Name: |
Erigeron ‘select form’ |
| Height x
width: |
60cm x 40cm compact mound |
| Conditions: |
Likes hot sun to part
shade and will tolerate the poorest soils, is beneficial to cut back
from time to time |
| Features: |
soft pink-white daisy
flowers are borne in densely massed profusion most of the year |
| Landscape
use: |
Great for covering large areas and
difficult sites, pots, hanging baskets, seaside conditions, grown
under other plants, plant 4 plants per m2 for a rapid groundcover or
3 plants per metre for a quick border, |
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