olive tree hedge nz
Thinking about planting an olive tree hedge in NZ? You’re making an exceptional choice for both beauty and practicality. Olive trees, with their silvery-green foliage and graceful structure, create a dense, evergreen screen that’s perfectly suited to New Zealand gardens. Not only do they offer year-round privacy, but they also provide the bonus of edible fruit and a Mediterranean twist to your landscape. Olive tree hedges are heat and drought tolerant, handle coastal winds, and bring a classic formality to both rural and urban properties.
Pittosporum 'Oliver Twist'
Pittosporum 'Oliver Twist' is a NZ native shrub with small, olive-green leaves held densely on narrow, black stems. This evergreen typically grows to 3 m tall and 2 m wide and can be trimmed as necessary. Pittosporum 'Oliver Twist' is an excellent choice for hedging, growing around pools and barbecue areas, adding to a mixed planting, or growing as a backdrop for smaller plants.
From $26.15
Corokia Pounamu
Corokia Pounamu is a NZ native shrub featuring narrow, olive-green foliage. New foliage has a layer of felt on the underside of the leaves which gives the plant an overall green and grey colouring. Small, yellow flowers are produced in spring and are followed by masses of bright red berries in summer as it reaches 1.2 m tall and 1 m wide. Corokia Pounamu is commonly trimmed into a hedge, added to a mixed planting, used on challenging sites, planted to border an entrance, or used in native plantings.
From $16.95
