COLLECTION · HEDGE & SCREEN

Hedging & Screening

Plants that make a boundary, block a view, or cut wind. Chosen for dense growth from the base up, since a hedge that goes bare at the bottom is not a hedge.

Japanese Mock Orange

Pittosporum tobira

A dense, rounded evergreen with whorls of leathery leaves and creamy spring flowers that smell strongly of orange blossom. One of the most reliable structural shrubs for Mediterranean and coastal gardens.

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Buddhist Pine

Podocarpus macrophyllus

Not a true pine but a podocarpus, with narrow dark evergreen leaves on stiffly upright growth. Takes clipping better than almost any other evergreen, which makes it the go-to plant for tall narrow hedges and topiary.

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Japanese Spindle

Euonymus japonicus

Thick, glossy, almost plastic-looking evergreen leaves, often variegated in gold or cream. A workhorse hedging shrub that tolerates coastal exposure, pollution, and hard clipping without complaint.

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Common Myrtle

Myrtus communis

Native to Lebanon and woven through the region's history, with small aromatic leaves, white summer flowers, and blue-black berries. Clips beautifully and releases scent whenever brushed against.

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Oleander

Nerium oleander

The hardest-working flowering shrub in the Mediterranean, flowering from late spring to autumn on almost no water, in almost any soil, including road verges and salt-blasted coastal sites. Every part of it is highly toxic.

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Natal Plum

Carissa macrocarpa

Glossy evergreen foliage, fragrant white star flowers through most of the year, and edible crimson fruit, all on a shrub armed with forked thorns that make it a genuinely effective security hedge.

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Hopbush

Dodonaea viscosa

Fast, upright, and extremely tough, grown as much for the papery pink seed capsules that follow the insignificant flowers as for the narrow evergreen foliage. Purple-leaved forms are particularly striking.

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Laurustinus

Viburnum tinus

Flowers through winter and early spring, opening white from tight pink buds when little else is in bloom, then setting metallic blue-black berries. A dependable evergreen backbone shrub.

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Common Box

Buxus sempervirens

The traditional plant of formal gardens: slow, dense, small-leaved, and capable of holding a crisp clipped edge for generations. Unmatched for low hedging, parterres, and topiary.

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Mediterranean Cypress

Cupressus sempervirens

The dark exclamation mark of every Mediterranean landscape, and native to this region. Planted in a line it makes a windbreak and a boundary at once; planted singly it frames a view. Extremely long-lived and almost indifferent to drought.

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Planting something larger?

If you are planning a full garden, an orchard, or a landscape project, we can design and install it rather than supply it plant by plant.

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