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.
Brunfelsia pauciflora Scent sational (Yesterday Today Tomorrow Plant)
Brunfelsia Scent-Sational, commonly known as the Yesterday Today Tomorrow plant features masses of sweetly fragrant, pansy like flowers during spring and summer which literally coat the plant. Most interestingly though, the flowers open blue-violet, fade to lavender, then finally turn white. It grows as a rounded cushion of leathery, green leaves to about 1.2 m tall and 2 m wide. Brunfelsia Scent-Sational is commonly grown as an informal hedge, added to a mixed planting, planted around outdoor living areas, used in cottage gardens, or mass planted alongside a path or on a bank.
Buxus microphylla (Littleleaf Boxwood)
Buxus microphylla, commonly known as Japanese Box or Littleleaf Boxwood, is a compact evergreen shrub renowned for its dense, glossy green foliage and adaptability to shaping. Ideal for formal hedges, borders, and topiary, it maintains its vibrant colour year-round. With excellent cold tolerance and minimal shaping required, it's a reliable choice for formal gardens, cottage landscapes, and container planting throughout New Zealand.
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