Pittosporum Silver Sheen

Name: Pittosporum Silver Sheen - 10 litre container
Brand: The Plant Company
SKU: 10507j
Price: 112.8 NZD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

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Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver Sheen is a NZ native shrub that features small, silver-green leaves held on brown-black stems. It grows rapidly with a tidy and dense habit to about 3 m tall and 1.5 m wide and can be trimmed as necessary. Pittosporum Silver Sheen is an excellent choice for hedging, growing around pools areas, adding to a mixed planting, or including in native plantings.

Suited to regions:	All regions
Plant type:	Shrubs
Height:	3.00 m
Spread:	1.50 m
Flowering time:	Spring
Tolerances:	Extended dry periods, Hardy, Wind
Garden uses:	Hedging, Living areas, Parks, Ponds, Pool areas, Screening, Specimen
Garden styles:	Alpine, Architectural, Backyard, City & Courtyard, Formal, Frontyard, Mediterranean, Modern, Native
Easy to grow?	Yes
Maintenance requirements	Low
Growth rate	Medium
Also known as	Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver Sheen, Silver Sheen Kohuhu, Silver Sheen Kohuhu Pittosporum, Silver Sheen Pittosporum tenuifolium, Silver Sheen Tree, Silver Sheen Plant, Pittosporum Silver Sheen Height, Silver Sheen Bush, Silver Sheen Shrub

Pittosporum Silver Sheen Details

Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver Sheen is an attractive, NZ native shrub that features small, silver-green leaves held on brown-black stems. It grows rapidly with a tidy and dense habit to about 3 m tall and 1.5 m wide and can be trimmed as necessary. Trimming encourages new growth and helps keep the plant dense. Small, dark purple flowers are produced in spring amidst the foliage, which adds extra interest to this plant. If performs best when grown in full sun on a well-drained site, and it is tolerant of most soil types, except extreme wet. It is also hardy to coastal conditions, moderate frost, some wind, and dry periods though does benefit from protection while establishing. Pittosporum Silver Sheen is an excellent choice for hedging, growing around pools areas, adding to a mixed planting, or including in native plantings. Space plants 50 cm apart when growing this Pittosporum as a hedge.

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New neighbours still building their house, have erected a dark green steel fence that towers above us at 2.5m very close to our house and making us feel enclosed by metal. Once their landscapers have fixed broken concrete on our side and I can see how narrow the path which runs parallel to back of our house around to garage will ultimately be, I'm intending to order some Silver Sheen to quickly grow up and soften the effect. We're in our 70s and don't want to be forever trimming. Do you think it is slender enough or is there a more suitable pitto that won't grow too tall? Or even a dwarf variety of something similar you could suggest that likes same Hawkes Bay conditions - tolerates periods of long dryness, wind, salt air. Thank you very much. Jan FitzGerald

Hi Jan. Email me directly... luke@theplantcompany.co.nz and I will offer a few suggestions. The other option is to use our plant finder tool... just tick the boxes for what you require and it will give you some quick answers.