Lilly Pilly `Select` - A medium to large-sized native shrub ideal for formal or informal hedging
Lilly Pilly’s are by far one of the best quick growing native hedging plants. Lilly Pilly ‘Select’ is a medium to large-sized native shrub ideal for formal or informal hedging. It has glossy, deep green foliage and coppery tones on the new young leaves. Lilly Pilly `Select` have small fluffy creamy white flowers in spring and summer followed by purple edible berries, these berries are a bush tucker food.
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Syzygium australe `Select` |
Syzygium australe `Select` make great hedges, they can be clipped to make a traditional formal hedge or they can be left to grow in their natural form in which case they develop into a large conical shrub. Lilly Pilly’s are best suited to larger yards as the bush left unclipped they can reach 2 metres plus wide at the base. When clipped into a formal hedge they can be kept short and narrower. Lilly Pilly ‘Select’ is psyllid resistant meaning they rarely get the leaf disfiguration and scaring caused by a leaf boring insect common to many Lilly Pilly’s.
Height & Width |
Left to grow unclipped they can grow up to 5 metres X 2 metres wide at the base. They can be kept short and narrower by training as a formal hedge. |
Aspect |
Full sun to part shade |
Soil Type |
they perform best in loamy to clay loam fertile soils. |
Maintenance |
Prune as desired to shape, fertilise in spring with slow release fertilisereed |
Flowers and Fruit |
Spring and summer with creamy white fluffy flowers followed by purple berries |
Planting Rates |
For hedges plant at 1 to 1.5 metre centres. |
