best small hedge plants
Looking to define garden beds, create privacy, or add structure to your landscape? Choosing the best small hedge plants can transform your outdoor space, even with limited room. Compact hedges make excellent borders, screen unsightly corners, and offer year-round appeal without overshadowing other plantings. With so many versatile options suitable for New Zealand conditions, it’s easy to find small hedges that fit your style, thrive in our climate, and are manageable in size.
Buxus sempervirens 'Silver Beauty' (Silver Boxwood)
Buxus sempervirens 'Silver Beauty', commonly known as Box Hedge, features small leaves that are dark green with irregular, cream-silver margins, and held densely on short stems. Left untrimmed it will eventually grow to 1 m tall and 1.2 m wide.
Corokia 'Little Prince'
Corokia 'Little Prince' is a small and twiggy, NZ native shrub that features small, grey-brown leaves and black stems. The slim, intertwined stems afford an unusual element to this plant. It produces masses of small, yellow flowers in spring which are followed by red berries in autumn as it grows to 3 m tall and 1.5 m wide.
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