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Description

Used for centuries as classic garden hedges, often in formal gardens, but equally at home in small gardens and containers. When trimmed, box forms perfectly regimented rows of glossy evergreen bushes that bring classic style to your garden.

Box hedging, Buxus sempervirens, is perfect for edges, borders and small boundaries, and makes neat hedges to 1m tall over 10 years if required but can be kept at 30cm if needed. It's shade tolerant and is happy in most soil types as long as it's not waterlogged.

These established plants are 3 years old and trimmed several times to give really bushy plants make growing a box hedge easy. If you don't fancy growing them together as a hedge, you can always pot them up individually into favourite containers and move plants to where you want them, just remembering to keep them well-watered.

Plant one plant per 25cm (10') for best results. They will grow 10-15cm per year. Do not trim for 2-3 years after planting, then lightly tip in summer as needed.

Supplied as a pack of 10 plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.

Top Tips

Always water plants from below and keep to the most open spacing as possible (don't crowd them), to keep plants healthy.
Box should also be kept out of direct, hot sunshine, preferring to be planted where it gets at least a little shade during the heat of the day.

Care Information

To plant, water your potted plant well. Place in a row approx. 25cm apart.
Dig a hole a little deeper and 3 x wider than the nursery pot.
Add a soil conditioner such as well-rotted manure to the earth removed from the hole if necessary.
Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
Place your plant in the hole at the same level at the pot.
Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling).
Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball.
Water well and mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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