{"title":"Viburnums","description":"\u003cp\u003eViburnums cover two separate jobs, and the job you have decides which plant belongs in the cart. The evergreen sweet viburnums are fast, dense hedging and screening stock, with glossy leaves, growth that holds down to the ground, and the clipping tolerance to be held anywhere from a 1.5m boundary hedge to a 4m screen. They carry scented white flowers as well, but the leaf is the reason to plant them. The deciduous types are grown for the spring flower display, with leaf colour after it in autumn, and belong where both can be seen. Pick evergreen for a year-round green wall, deciduous for the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-odoratissimum\"\u003eSweet Viburnum - Viburnum odoratissimum\u003c\/a\u003e is the usual screening choice and carries the widest size range here, 100mm starter pots through to 45L advanced plants. It suits warm and temperate gardens; heavy frost burns the foliage. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-odoratissimum-emerald-lustre\"\u003eSweet Viburnum - Viburnum odoratissimum Emerald Lustre\u003c\/a\u003e is a named form of the same species, with larger, glossier foliage and more even growth, to 20L. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-tinus\"\u003eLaurustinus - Viburnum tinus\u003c\/a\u003e is the cool-climate evergreen, with smaller leaves and white flower clusters through the colder months. It suits a low to mid-height clipped hedge rather than a tall screen, and it sets seed that birds carry, so keep it clipped near bushland. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-suspensum\"\u003eSandankwa Viburnum - Viburnum suspensum\u003c\/a\u003e is slower and more compact, the pick for a hedge held under 2m, and runs to 45L. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-coppertop-pbr\"\u003eViburnum Coppertop PBR\u003c\/a\u003e is a third evergreen, grown for bronze new growth that colours up after every trim. For flowers, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-plicatum-mariesii\"\u003eJapanese Snowball - Viburnum plicatum Mariesii\u003c\/a\u003e holds flat white flower tiers along horizontal branches in spring, stocked from 200mm to 70L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evergreens take full sun to part shade. The Japanese snowball wants morning sun and shelter from hot afternoon sun inland, or the leaves scorch. All of them want soil that drains. Space sweet viburnums 800mm to 1m apart for a screen, or 500mm to 700mm for a tighter clipped hedge and for Sandankwa and Laurustinus. Water deeply through the first two summers and keep mulch off the trunks. Once established, clip twice a year, in early spring and again after the summer flush, taking a little each time rather than cutting back into bare wood. Time Laurustinus differently: it carries flower buds over autumn, so make the main clip straight after flowering and keep later trims light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thing that ruins these hedges is leaving them unpruned for the first two years. A young viburnum that is never tipped puts everything into height, and by the time the tops have closed over at 3m the lower stems have shaded themselves out and dropped their leaves, so you get a screen that is solid at head height and see through at knee height. Start tipping in the first season, while the plants still look too small to be worth the trouble. Old bare wood will re-shoot, but it costs a season or two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill weighing options for the same job? The \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e collections set viburnum against lilly pilly and the other dense evergreens, while \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flowering\"\u003eflowering\u003c\/a\u003e covers the spring display shrubs that compete with the snowball types. Every order ships farm-direct with flat $99 delivery across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, a $399 minimum order, and the 30-Day Healthy Plant Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"viburnum-plicatum-mariesii","title":"Japanese Snowball - Viburnum plicatum Mariesii","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlike the ball-flowered snowball viburnums, 'Mariesii' is a lacecap. Flat white flowerheads sit along the upper side of strongly horizontal branches in spring, so a settled plant reads as a series of tiered white shelves. The pleated, deeply veined leaves colour burgundy before dropping, and the bare layered framework is worth looking at through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt grows quickly in full sun to part shade with moderate water and will knit into a dense informal screen. Be clear about two things before you use it that way. The plant is deciduous, so any screening is a warm-season job only, and hard shearing destroys the horizontal layering that makes it worth growing. Let it reach its natural width and thin old wood out at the base rather than clipping the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlower buds form on wood made the previous season, so prune straight after flowering and never in late winter. Hot dry afternoon positions bring leaf scorch and flower drop; morning sun with moist, humus-rich soil suits it far better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 200mm up to 70L, priced from $29.95 to $629.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64309535670641,"sku":null,"price":76.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64309535703409,"sku":null,"price":549.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64309535736177,"sku":null,"price":629.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64309535768945,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/euayqsBlenB6P6tW_nZSy_KwjntOlS.jpg?v=1787629017"},{"product_id":"viburnum-odoratissimum-emerald-lustre","title":"Sweet Viburnum - Viburnum odoratissimum Emerald Lustre (Viburnum awabuki)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmerald Lustre is a named selection of Viburnum odoratissimum, propagated from cuttings so every plant in a run behaves the same way. That uniformity is why it dominates specified hedge work: big glossy leaves, bronze red new flushes, dense growth from a young age, and one leaf colour and one growth rate along the entire line. It is often labelled Viburnum awabuki. Scented white flower heads open in spring on plants that are not clipped hard, and left to itself it will make a small tree.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eSpacing, light and the thrips that ruin these hedges\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt grows fast in full sun to part shade across most of the country, wants soil with compost through it and regular water while it establishes, and holds up well once its roots are down. Space plants around a metre apart for a screen and expect two or three trims a year to keep it tight. In deep shade, or where it is underfed, it goes leggy and bare at the base, and no amount of clipping the top will fix that.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViburnum thrips is the pest that ruins these hedges, so check the new growth before anything else. Young leaves silver, cup and harden, the damage stays on the plant until those leaves are cut off, and a heavy infestation moves along a run quickly. It is far easier to stay ahead of from planting day than to fix once the hedge is above head height and out of reach. Inspect new flushes through spring and early summer, keep water up so the plant can push past a knock, and treat early rather than waiting for the whole face to go dull. Two spotted mite turns up in hot dry positions as well.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eUniformity, and how it compares with tinus\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgainst the straight \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-odoratissimum\"\u003eSweet Viburnum\u003c\/a\u003e, the case for Emerald Lustre is consistency: seedling raised stock varies in leaf size and vigour, which shows as an uneven line in a long formal hedge and matters far less in an informal screen. Against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-tinus\"\u003eLaurustinus\u003c\/a\u003e, the difference is scale and climate. Tinus has small leaves, flowers in winter and suits cool southern gardens; Emerald Lustre has leaves the size of your hand, screens far higher, and copes with humid subtropical summers that tinus resents. For a hedge held lower and tighter than either, Sandankwa Viburnum is the smaller leaved option. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eTrimming a tall screen and feeding the base\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrim two or three times through the growing season, the first cut in late spring after any flowering and the last by early autumn so new growth hardens before winter. Bring the sides in as well as the top, tapering them slightly wider at the base to keep the lower growth in light. Feed in early spring and again in midsummer with a complete slow release fertiliser, water it in, and mulch afterwards; underfeeding is the usual reason a screen thins out at the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 6 sizes, from 140mm up to 400mm, priced from $16.95 to $209.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"20L","offer_id":64311394304369,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311394337137,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311394369905,"sku":null,"price":209.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311394402673,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311394435441,"sku":null,"price":88.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180mm","offer_id":64311394468209,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-emerald-lustre-viburnum-viburnum-odoratissimum-emerald-lustre_d9b69268-107a-4ba3-8fd2-b3589ddf0ac9.png?v=1785551723"},{"product_id":"viburnum-suspensum","title":"Sandankwa Viburnum - Viburnum suspensum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSandankwa viburnum is the smaller leaved of the two evergreen viburnums that do most of the hedging work in Australian gardens. Where sweet viburnum throws out big soft glossy leaves and wants constant cutting, suspensum carries darker, stiffer, leathery foliage on a denser frame, and it stays clothed to the ground. Small pinkish white flower clusters open in late winter with a musky rather than sweet scent, which not everyone wants beside a doorway. Its job is a hedge held at chest to head height.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eWarm climate hedging and the frost that limits it\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt grows quickly in sun or part shade, takes clipping well, and holds a face better than its larger leaved relative because the leaves are smaller and stiffer. Plant into soil improved with compost, mulch it, and space around 75cm to a metre apart for a hedge. Taper the sides slightly wider at the base than the top so lower growth keeps its light, which is what stops a hedge going bare at the ankles. It suits gardens from the temperate coast north into the tropics, and it copes with salt wind and with heat reflecting off paving.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe limit on this one is cold. Sandankwa is a warm climate plant, and in cold inland districts frost burns the foliage brown around the margins, checks growth in spring, and leaves a hedge patchy along the exposed face while the sheltered end looks untouched. In frost prone gardens choose a position with overhead protection, or plant a hardier species instead. Along the warm coast and through the subtropics it is the more dependable of the pair, holding colour and density through summers that leave other hedges looking tired.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eSuspensum between laurustinus and the sweet viburnums\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-tinus\"\u003eLaurustinus\u003c\/a\u003e is the cool climate counterpart: finer in leaf, flowering through winter, better in a southern garden, and unhappy in the humid northern heat where suspensum thrives. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-odoratissimum-emerald-lustre\"\u003eEmerald Lustre\u003c\/a\u003e is the plant to choose if you need a screen well above head height quickly, since its leaves are far larger and it grows tall enough to become a small tree; that scale is exactly what makes it wrong for a neat hedge held at chest height. Suspensum sits between them, with advanced stock available where an instant screen is wanted. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eTwo or three cuts a year, and a feeding routine\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrim two or three times through the growing season, starting after the late winter flowers finish so you are not cutting the display off, and take the last cut by early autumn. Once it reaches the height you want, cut back into the plant rather than shearing only the surface. Feed in early spring and again in midsummer with a complete slow release fertiliser and water it in. Mulch after feeding and keep water going through hot spells while the hedge is still filling out. Scale insects bring sooty mould and a grubby cast to the leaves; horticultural oil through the warm months sorts it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 200mm up to 45L, priced from $29.95 to $389.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311406625137,"sku":null,"price":389.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64311406657905,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311406690673,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311406723441,"sku":null,"price":96.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30L","offer_id":64311406756209,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pd15-166-sandankwa-viburnum-viburnum-suspensum_bca29859-8c7e-4f8e-8269-04180c5a98e1.png?v=1785551743"},{"product_id":"viburnum-tinus","title":"Laurustinus - Viburnum tinus","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaurustinus closes a fence line faster than almost anything else evergreen, which is why it turns up on so many suburban boundaries. Given water and feed it knits into a dense dark green wall that holds a clipped face, on smaller, matt leaves rather than the big glossy foliage of the sweet viburnums. Its distinguishing feature is timing: tight pink buds open into flat heads of white through the colder months, when little else is out, followed by metallic blue black berries that birds strip.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eA Mediterranean shrub in an Australian climate\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaurustinus comes from the Mediterranean, and its calendar matches that origin: growth through the cooler wetter months, flowers in winter, and a preference for a dry warm summer rather than a steamy one. It suits temperate gardens across the south, takes full sun to part shade, and is not fussy about soil provided it drains. Space plants around 60 to 90cm apart for a hedge, and keep water up through the first two summers while it fills out. It tolerates lime in the ground better than most hedging shrubs, which helps on limestone country and along a line of new concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe failure mode is climate rather than care. In humid subtropical gardens with warm nights it sulks, mildews and dies back in patches, and a hedge that looked healthy in its second winter can thin badly through its third summer. Northern gardeners are better served by one of the sweet viburnums. Where the climate does suit it, the thing to watch is the berries, which germinate readily in cool moist districts, so clip the seed heads off if self sown seedlings would be a nuisance in nearby bush or a neighbour's garden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eEvergreen hedging viburnums, and where tinus fits\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eEverything in this hub is an evergreen hedging viburnum. The deciduous flowering species that share the name, the snowball types and the scented winter flowering ones, are different plants for a different purpose and are not what these pages cover. Among the evergreens, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-odoratissimum\"\u003eSweet Viburnum\u003c\/a\u003e has much larger glossy leaves and screens a two storey outlook, while \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-suspensum\"\u003eSandankwa Viburnum\u003c\/a\u003e is the warm climate option with stiff leathery foliage. Tinus is the pick for a cool climate hedge at chest to head height, a finer leaf texture, and flowers in midwinter. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hedges\"\u003ehedges\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eTrimming after winter flowers, and feeding\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrim once the winter flowering finishes in early spring, and again in late summer to hold a clean face. Cut the sides back into the plant as well as topping it, because a hedge that is only ever topped goes bare at the base and does not fill in again. An old hedge that has gone bare takes a hard cut in early spring and will reshoot from old wood. Feed in early spring with a complete slow release fertiliser and mulch afterwards. Viburnum thrips silver and bronze the leaves over summer and are the most common complaint on this plant; scale, and the sooty mould that follows it, turn up in still shaded positions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 10 sizes, from 100mm up to 400mm, priced from $16.95 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"175mm","offer_id":64311434051953,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64311434084721,"sku":null,"price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311434117489,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5L","offer_id":64311434150257,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100mm","offer_id":64311434183025,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311434215793,"sku":null,"price":96.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64311434248561,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200mm","offer_id":64311434281329,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311434314097,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"350mm","offer_id":64311434346865,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/plantdrop-laurustinus-viburnum-viburnum-tinus_967fa004-e050-4853-9a56-4803424b0c6b.png?v=1785551809"},{"product_id":"viburnum-odoratissimum","title":"Sweet Viburnum - Viburnum odoratissimum (Viburnum awabuki)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSweet viburnum is the plant most often specified when a fence line has to disappear. Large glossy leathery leaves on a dense fast growing frame, flushing bronze on new growth, block a view from ground level up in a way finer foliage cannot manage. Clusters of small white flowers open in spring on plants that are not clipped hard, carrying a heavy sweet scent, followed by red fruit. Left alone it becomes a small tree, which is what makes it the choice for screening a two storey outlook.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eFast is not the same as tough\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlant it closer than looks sensible if you want a screen in a hurry, around 80cm to a metre apart, then be ready to feed and water it while it closes up. It takes full sun to part shade and grows quickly, but quick is not the same as tough. A large leaf area loses a great deal of water on a hot day, and the reason sweet viburnum browns off in narrow strips beside driveways and against west facing brick is almost always that someone treated it as a drought hardy screen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReflected heat, a shallow strip of soil, and an irrigation line switched off after the first year will scorch the leaf margins, thin the base and leave a hedge you can see straight through. Give it soil improved with compost, a deep mulch, proper watering through the first two summers, and some water in heatwaves after that. Viburnum thrips is the other thing to watch, showing as silvering or bronzing spreading across older leaves, and it moves through a hedge quickly in a dry spring.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eThe species against the selected form\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll four viburnums in this range are evergreen hedging types rather than the deciduous flowering kinds. Within them, the species and its selected form do slightly different jobs. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-odoratissimum-emerald-lustre\"\u003eEmerald Lustre\u003c\/a\u003e is a named selection grown for uniformity, which matters when a long run has to grow at one rate and hold one leaf colour end to end. The species is more variable plant to plant, no drawback at all in an informal screen or a mixed boundary planting where an even line is not the goal. For a hedge held at chest height instead, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/viburnum-suspensum\"\u003eSandankwa Viburnum\u003c\/a\u003e is the smaller leaved plant. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/privacy-screening\"\u003eprivacy screening\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eTwo cuts a year, and what clipping costs you in flower\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrim twice a year, once after flowering in late spring and again in late summer, to hold a clean face; a third light cut suits a formal hedge in a warm district. Take the sides in as well as the top. If you want the flowers, leave a season between hard cuts, since clipping removes the wood that carries them. Feed in early spring and midsummer with a complete slow release fertiliser, water it in, and top up mulch after each application, since a fast grower carrying this much leaf empties the top layer of soil quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 11 sizes, from 100mm up to 45L, priced from $16.95 to $309.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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Viburnum odoratissimum makes a large plant left to itself, and a Coppertop hedge is a big shrub held small by regular cutting, not a naturally compact one. Trimmed on schedule it gives fast, dense privacy from the ground up, with each flush of new growth breaking coppery bronze over glossy dark green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the quickest of the common screening options, and that cuts both ways. Growth that fast needs water and food behind it, and a plant that dries out or gets shaded down one side will drop lower leaves and go bare exactly where you wanted cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo not confuse it with Viburnum tinus, a smaller, tougher, flower focused shrub used for low hedging. Coppertop is what you plant when a fence line has to disappear in a hurry. Flat rate $99 delivery covers QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 5L up to 300mm, priced from $30.95 to $88.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These mid-range sizes balance establishment speed against immediate presence, and they are the usual choice for general garden planting. Not sure which to choose? 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The leaves are deeply pleated and strongly veined, colouring to dull red and purple before they fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is deciduous and it is fast, which is a useful combination on a boundary. It fills space quickly and blocks a view right through the months you are actually outside using the garden, then opens up and lets winter light through. Just do not expect it to hide anything in July.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun to part shade and moderate, steady water. It resents drying out in hot summer wind and will crisp at the leaf edges when it does. Allow it width rather than fighting the tiered habit with hard vertical shearing, which cuts off the flowering wood. Available in 300mm pots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 300mm, at $149.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/fast-growing-privacy-screen-plants-australia\"\u003efast growing screening plants\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64311507878257,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/pSezj9ejN6OAeBRKo5_Yu_s5ARGSSu.jpg?v=1787630136"},{"product_id":"viburnum-emerald-lustre","title":"Sweet Viburnum - Viburnum Emerald Lustre","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a client wants a boundary hidden by next summer, this is usually the answer. Emerald Lustre is a selection of Viburnum odoratissimum with large, glossy, leathery leaves and new growth that flushes bronze to copper before hardening to deep green, and it puts on height quickly enough to close a gap in a season or two given water and feed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not the same plant as Viburnum tinus, which has small leaves and flowers heavily. This one is grown for foliage and screen density, and flowering is incidental. Full sun through to part shade both work, and it takes clipping well, which is how most people hold it as a flat green wall rather than the big shrub it wants to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catch is that it is thirsty by hedging standards. Moderate, consistent watering, particularly against a hot brick wall or in a competing root zone, is what separates a solid hedge from one with thin, yellowing lower growth. Space plants so each has room to fill out instead of jamming them in for speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $29.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? 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