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Tom Thumb Kohuhu / Tawhiwhi Hedging

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Pittosporum tenuifolium

  • Purple, with bright green new foliage
  • Evergreen shrub
  • Doesn't flower much: not much good for bees!
  • Light honey fragrance in the evening
  • Low maintenance hedging or specimen balls
  • To 1m
  • RHS Award of Garden Merit
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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.

P9 (9cm Pot)
Potted
£8.95each
Qty
1-5
6 +
£
£ 8.95
£ 7.95
3 Litre
Potted
£19.98each
Qty
1-7
8 +
£
£ 19.98
£ 18.96

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Description

Pittosporum tenuifolium Tom Thumb Hedge Plants

The evergreen leaves are purple, which contrast the green new shoots. Great low maintenance ornamental hedging, with a naturally globular habit: often grown as balls. The small brownish-purple flowers in May-June are few, but have a light honey scent that gets stronger in the evening. To 1 metres.

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

Features:

  • Purple, with bright green new foliage
  • Evergreen shrub
  • Doesn't flower much: bad for bees!
  • Light honey fragrance in the evening
  • Low maintenance hedging or specimen balls
  • To 1m
  • RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Pittosporum Tom Thumb

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 may clip it every other year to encourage flowers.

Planting Instructions

Did You Know?

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

What to expect

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