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Borders up to 1m
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Hedges 1-2.5m |
Screens 2.5m plus |
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Hedges 1-2.5m |
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 If
your garden bed receives at least ½ a day of full sun or more and your soil
can become wet/ boggy and/or is heavy clay these hedge plants are suitable
for your garden situation: |
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Toorak 'Gum
Tree'™ Alnus |
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Botanical
Name: |
Alnus jorulensis
[Evergreen Alder] |
| Height x
width: |
10m x 10m, but best kept
trimmed and contained |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
3m for large hedge, 1-2m
for pleached feature or narrow screen |
| Conditions: |
Very hardy, will handle
wet, keep contained in small areas as can be inclined to go for
pipes. |
| Features: |
Very fast growing and
attractive tree with rich green foliage and a nice shape. |
| Landscape
use: |
Windbreak, specimen, avenue, narrow
screens, pleached, trimmed as a specimen in small areas and left to
grow unrestricted on larger properties. |
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Myrtus luma |
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Botanical
Name: |
Luma apiculata |
| Height x
width: |
up to 4m x 3m |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
2 per metre for thick
dense hedge or screen |
| Conditions: |
Will tolerate a wide range
of conditions but prefers well drained soils, mulch well |
| Features: |
Small glossy aromatic
foliage and small white cup shape flowers from mid summer to mid
autumn, excellent trimmed into topiary standards and shapes |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, topiary, obelisks,
small tree, large shrub. |
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Box Leaved
Privet |
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Botanical
Name: |
Ligustrum
undulatum |
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Height x
width: |
Up to 1.2
metres, or trimmed lower, can grow a 2-3 foot hedge in 12 months |
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Planting
distance for hedge: |
4 per metre
for dense bushy hedge or border |
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Conditions: |
Will grow in
very poor or heavy soils, full sun to part shade, trim regularly to
promote bushy growth and maintain formal shape |
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Features: |
Rich green
lush foliage, which will give a traditional style finish but grow
very quickly |
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Landscape
use: |
Low borders and medium
hedges, excellent for formal landscapes or edging and topiary |
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Laurustinus |
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Botanical
Name: |
Viburnum tinus |
| Height x
width: |
up to 3m x 3m |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
1m |
| Conditions: |
Sun to part shade, will
tolerate a large range of soils but prefers moist well drained soils |
| Features: |
A rounded evergreen shrub
with dark green glossy leaves that develop purple tones in winter,
clusters of tiny white flowers in winter
emerge from pink buds followed by blue-black berries. |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, garden specimens,
containers. |
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Photinia |
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Botanical
Name: |
Photinia robusta |
| Height x
width: |
up to 3m x 3m |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
1m |
| Conditions: |
Sun to part shade, very
hardy, will tolerate a large range of soils but prefers moist well
drained soils |
| Features: |
A rounded evergreen shrub
with dark green glossy leaves with bright red attractive new growth |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, garden specimen |
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Chilean Pencil
Willow |
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Botanical
Name: |
Salix chilensis |
| Height x
width: |
7-8m x 1m |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
70-80cm |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
moist soils. |
| Features: |
Narrow bright green waxy
leaves with the form of the tree being very upright and columnar. |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, avenues, specimen. |
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Tarata |
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Botanical
Name: |
Pittosporum eugeniodes
variegatum |
| Height x
width: |
8m x 5m or can be trimmed
lower in a hedge or screen |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
1m |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
well-drained soil, very hardy |
| Features: |
A fast growing tree with
narrow, oval, wavy-edged leaves that are variegated grey-green and
creamy white. |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, Screens, Windbreaks. |
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Willow-leafed
Hakea |
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Botanical
Name: |
Hakea salicifolia syn H.
saligna |
| Height x
width: |
4-6m x 2-3m |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
1m |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
well drained soils, tolerant of clay soils and dry conditions. |
| Features: |
Fast growing bushy small
tree with red new growth, cream spidery flowers clustered around
stems in summer followed by woody fruit. |
| Landscape
use: |
Windbreaks, fire-retarding hedges,
shade tree, amongst mixed shrubs. |
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Leightons Green |
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Botanical
Name: |
Cupressocyparis leylandii
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| Height x
width: |
8m x 4m |
| Planting
distance for hedge: |
1m |
| Conditions: |
Full sun, well drained
soils, mulch around base,
keep free of grass and weeds around the base.
Wind, frost and salt tolerant. |
| Features: |
Attractive green foliage,
fast growing and hardy |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, windbreaks and
specimens. |
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