Tom Thumb Kohuhu / Tawhiwhi Hedging
The details
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
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.
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.
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