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Box. Shall I let it grow?

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  • CamelliadCamelliad Posts: 402
    edited March 2020
    I had a wander around that garden at Wisley and the topiary that looked most pleasing to me was the Osmanthus Burkwoodii. They also did some interesting things with Pittosporum (and I have a Pittosporum golf ball which is nice and rounded, although quite loose in structure) and Leptospermum Grandiflorum, depending on which colours work best for you. I've just bought some Euonymus japonicus Microphyllus, which is a lovely rich green colour - low growing though. I wasn't keen on Ilex Crenata - too much stem and too little leaf for me.

    I planted lots of little box plants around last year. I'm going to let them grow but am slowly building up my supply of euonymus to replace them when the inevitable happens (and hope that they don't all succumb to scale).
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Another couple more have sprouted. I'd sort of got used to them not being there.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    B3 said:
    I agree. I wouldn't consider buying them, but as some of  mine have survived brutal pruning, I'll keep them until they show signs of disease again.
    I bought half a dozen buxus last year, I’m on the Kent/London border, no sign of blight so far.
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