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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I have a variegated pitosporum which I keep pruned flat to the fence . It is very fast growing. Don't know what it's called but I'll take a pic if you're interestedimage.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • How tall can that get B3?

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Steve the Gardening Vet says:

    Holly had crossed my mind cos you can keep the bottom reasonably tightly trimmed for the safety of your eyes but let the top run away, right?

    See original post

     That's what I was thinking ...  you could even grow it like a sort of spear-shaped standard with a 'bare leg' image 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Don't know. My fence is 7ft and I trim it off if it gets higher.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Here's  some  pics. 

    The first one is an untrimmed  bit shooting  through  honeysuckle.  I'm  pretty  sure I pruned it a couple of  months  ago  but I might  have  missed  that bit!

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    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Anyone know what the white insect in the second pic is?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    It's a Tic-Tac beetle.

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    I've seen a pittosporum grown against a wall and topiarised in layers like a wedding cake, but without the support of the wall it wouldn't support it's own weight.  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    B3 - variegated pitttosporum 'Silver Queen'  or euonymus 'Silver Queen' ?

    Looks more like the latter to me but I stand to be corrected. 

    SW Scotland
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I haven't a clue Joyce. It was here when I arrived over twenty years ago! 

    Thanks for ID pp. Tried to Google can only get games. Has it another name?image 

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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