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These advanced English Buxus have been carefully trained into a perfect cone shape for you to strategically plant in your garden and continue to maintain with ease. Little Flinny fell in love with them when they came in! If you want to add a touch of class to your garden and formal English gardens are your jam then these are for you. You could easily keep these in decorative pots as features either side of a front door, driveway or pathway or use several in to line a pathway as an interesting feature hegde. English buxus is a dense-leaved evergreen shrub that is slow growing and shade tolerant and well suited to topiary. New growth can be clipped during the growing season to maintain the shape. It is also recommended to prune in late winter and late summer/early autumn with sharp secateurs or pruning shears.

Soil: Acid, alkaline or neutral. Moist but well-drained. Chalk, loam or sand. Use a good compost when potting on.
Conditions: Tolerant of shade and full sun. Water well during the spring and summer but sparingly in the winter. Apply dolomite lime and complete fertiliser in spring.
Size: H 2m x W 1-2m