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Golf Ball Pittosporum / Tawhiwhi Hedging Plants

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Pittosporum tenuifolium

  • Glossy, clear green foliage
  • Evergreen shrub
  • Small purple flowers with honey fragrance in the evening
  • Blooms May-June
  • Low maintenance hedging or specimen balls
  • Grows on chalk & the coast
  • To 1.2m
Choose a size

Pot sizes are measured by their volume in litres, except for the smallest size, 9cm / p9 pots, which are roughly half a litre. P9s benefit from extra care in their first year.

3 Litre
Potted
£19.95each
Qty
1-5
6 +
£
£ 19.95
£ 18.95
In Stock
P9 (9cm Pot)
Potted
£8.94each
Qty
1-8
9 +
£
£ 8.94
£ 7.96

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Description

Pittosporum tenuifolium Golf Ball Hedge Plants

A great choice for low maintenance ornamental hedging, it has a naturally globular habit and is therefore often grown as a ball. Its evergreen leaves are bright and glossy. The small brownish-purple flowers in May-June are not showy, but have a nice honey scent that gets stronger in the evening. To 1.2 metres.

Browse our other evergreen hedging here, or all our hedge plants here.

Features:

  • Glossy, clear green foliage
  • Evergreen shrub
  • Small purple flowers with decent fragrance in the evening
  • Blooms May-June
  • Low maintenance hedging or specimen balls
  • Grows on chalk & the coast
  • To 1.2m

Growing Pittosporum Golf Ball

Likes a moist, fertile soil with a decent amount of sun. It is hardy throughout most of the UK, but in colder parts of Scotland it will struggle in exposed locations.

Clip it once a year in Spring to keep it nice and bushy. When it reaches its full size, you can get away with clipping it every other year.

Did You Know?

Pitto-sporum means tar-seed, and tenui-folium is thin-leaf. At home in New Zealand, it is called Kohuhu and Tawhiwhi.

What to expect

It's Spring Planting Season 2025

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From seedlings in jumbo plugs; Dahlia tubers; small P9 & 1 Litre plants; up to trees in big 15L pots
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Planting out potted plants in Spring

Spring is perfect planting time

Roots love the warm soil; the plant has time to settle in before mid-Summer heat
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