Description
A distinctive selection of box which has ornamental, creamy-white, variegated leaves. Ideal for a planting as a special low hedge or for topiary. This plant can also be grown as an attractive, standalone shrub with the creamy variegation giving good winter interest.
Features
- Common name: Variegated Common Box.
- Position: Full sun or shade.
- Soil: Any moist, fertile soil. This plant is very tolerant of soil pH and will grow in very alkaline soil.
- Hardiness: Hardy.
- Rate of Growth: Slow.
- Habit: Medium sized, rounded shrub.
- Height: 2.5 m (8 ft)
- Spread: 2.5 m (8 ft)
- Pruning: Prune regularly to shape in June if required.
- Notes: We have a specimen of Buxus sempervirens 'Elegantissima', planted in the woodland garden surrounding our nursery. At 10 years old and having never been pruned, it had reached a height of 1.5 m, a spread of 1.5 m,
- Supplied Size: 3L containers.