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Re: Pittosporum illicoides or hebe tairawhiti or something completely different?
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Hi Kate, a suggestion for you from our social media followers
"I think it is Hebe stenophylla. If so, can be pruned to shape or hard back in April (over 2 years)."
- Posted: Tue. 24th March 2020 17:45
Pittosporum illicoides or hebe tairawhiti or something completely different?
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Extensive googling has led me to these two plants but I may be way off the mark. What is this? 1.5m tall, woody stems that partly look dead and snap off easily despite having new growth coming from them
- Posted: Tue. 24th March 2020 12:33
- Posted: Tue. 14th January 2020 16:58
Re: Help to identify tree to replace damaged area
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Looks like a Pittosporum tenuifolium to me - the screen shot is below
- Posted: Tue. 14th January 2020 16:55
Re: Help to identify tree to replace damaged area
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Hi It's Pittosporum tenuifolium. Most people grow it as a large shrub, but given enough time it forms a really great evergreen tree!
Sorry to hear it got damaged. Might be worth reshaping the whole plant and letting it regrow as a whole. Prune after the worst of the frosts have passed, but not too late into the spring or you'll miss that first bit of regrowth!
Hope that helps.
- Posted: Tue. 14th January 2020 16:49
Re: Help identify please (UK South East)
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It is nice to get some descriptions, how tall etc. The first picture is not very clear, could be a conifer or santolina, the 2nd is a hebe, the 3rd could be pittosporum.
- Posted: Sat. 18th August 2018 14:07
Re: What is this?
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Looks like Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Tom Thumb'.
- Posted: Mon. 2nd July 2018 09:11
Re: Unknown garden plants
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I agree with Nicola that the pictures are very unclear, but the first is almost certainly a Hebe, the second could be a pittosporum or cornus and the third looks like Thuja (or some other similar conifer.
- Posted: Sun. 24th June 2018 09:46
Re: Shrub and trailing plant ID help needed
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The variegated plant looks like a Pittosporum to me, but I am not an expert on varieties.
The other blue flower is a variety of Campanula - but again, there are many varieties. (There's some bindweed in amongst it too!)
- Posted: Wed. 16th May 2018 11:03
Re: Help identifying two shrubs
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I agree that the third photo appears to be a variegated Pittosporum.
- Posted: Wed. 9th May 2018 01:53
Re: Help identifying two shrubs
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the first picture looks like daphne odora marginata, the second might be the variegated pittosporum.
- Posted: Mon. 7th May 2018 14:01
Re: Help identifying two shrubs
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I think the pale leaved one is a Pittosporum - but not expert enough to identify variety. The other has me beaten.
- Posted: Mon. 7th May 2018 11:14
Re: Advice
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Are you in a place that doesn't get severely cold winter weather - there's a hardy Gardenia (Kleim's hardy) and a delightful plant called Pittosporum tobira (there seems to be a variety called 'nanum' and a variegated one!). I've never seen a dwarf Choisiya, and Ceanothus has only a light scent.
Do you want the scent in summer?
Maybe Sarcococca humilis (sweet box) might do if you want scent earlier in the year.
- Posted: Fri. 3rd November 2017 08:22
Re: Tree Identification Help
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Thank you for your suggestions Anna, Maggie and Andrew
I think the suggestion of the pittosporum tenuifolium is probably correct - mystery solved!
- Posted: Fri. 25th November 2016 06:44
Re: Tree Identification Help
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My first guess would be a holly, its difficult to see the buds,if you had a picture of them, it would help to narrow it down, also underside of leaf and close up of leaf surface. Second guess would be a Pittosporum, P. tenuifolium 'Gold Star' looks very similar though leaf is possibly smaller.
- Posted: Fri. 18th November 2016 15:11
: Re: Re: Please help me identify this plant
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Thank you Tania. That looks exactly right! A pittosporum tenuifolium it is. It is obviously happy where it is as it has reached a height of 5 metres. Is it O.K. to top it out as we don't want it to get any taller? Many thanks
- Posted: Sat. 21st May 2016 08:41
Re: Re: Please help me identify this plant
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Could it be a pittosporum? Tania
- Posted: Fri. 20th May 2016 15:41
Re: A few more...
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The first is a black elder - Sambucus nigra. Lovely pink elderflowers followed by berries that are edible (but not really nice to eat without lots of sugar to make them into cordial or jelly).
The second looks like Campanula muralis - look for blue flowers in a little while.
The third could be almost anything but at a guess is some kind of Pittosporum.
- Posted: Wed. 20th April 2016 15:58
Re: Does Pittosporum affect the health of other shrubs in close proximity
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Hi, Jacqueline,
The only Pittosporum know to harm other plants in close proximity is Pittosporum undulatum. P. tenuifolium should not be a problem. What is happening with your shrubs?
Kathy C
- Posted: Sat. 1st August 2015 20:47
Does Pittosporum affect the health of other shrubs in close proximity
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Does Pittosporum affect the health of other shrubs in close proximity
- Posted: Fri. 24th July 2015 16:53