Golf Ball Pittosporum / Tawhiwhi Hedging Plants

Golf Ball Pittosporum / Tawhiwhi Hedging Plants

Golf Ball Pittosporum is 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 aren't showy, but have a nice honey scent that gets stronger in the evening. To 1.2 metres.

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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's hardy throughout most of the UK, but in colder parts of Scotland it'll 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.

History & Trivia

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