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Osmanthus x fortunei – Multi Stems (False Holly or Fortune's Osmanthus)

Original price was: £3,995.00.Current price is: £3,196.00. incl. VAT

A lustrously- glossy evergreen tree originating in Japan. The ‘x’ means it’s a hybrid of two other Oamanthusses: brace yourself for some taxonomy or skip over the next bit and just know that it’s a truly majestic creature.

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A lustrously- glossy evergreen tree originating in Japan. The ‘x’ means it’s a hybrid of two other Oamanthusses: brace yourself for some taxonomy or skip over the next bit and just know that it’s a truly majestic creature. One parent, O. fragrans, is big and tough and leathery. Unkind adjectives but go with us. The other parent, O. heterophyllus, has dainty, serrated and dense leaves. Thus, their offspring x fortunei is a perfect combination of the pair, with robust and crisply serrated leaves at a scale, density and glossiness that is just perfect. Sweetly-scented flowers arrive in late summer so they pong prettily as well. These particular multi stemmed examples make very handsome specimen trees with naturally domed crowns: they’re a super choice for immediate impact in any garden and can be clipped into even neater forms should you want to do so. We reckon you can give your shears (and your gardener) a day off though: let these trees do their thing for they have a kind of naturalistic architecture that we adore. Also, their flowers are borne on old growth so trimming them at the wrong time could mean no blooms and no pong. Keep it simple. Drought tolerant once they’ve got stuck in (a year or two) and happy in sun or part shade.

FYI, we grow O heterophyllus too. It’s yummy.

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