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Green Pittosporum
Pittosporum tobira
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones:Â 8a-11 Â Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Evergreen Flowering ShrubÂ
Height at Maturity:Â 4-8′ depending on pruningÂ
Width at Maturity:Â 4-8′ depending on pruning
Spacing:Â 4-5′ for solid hedges; 12’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form:Â Dense, Rounded Mound
Growth Rate:Â Moderate
Flower Color:Â White fading to yellow
Flower Size:Â Â Small
Flowering Period:Â Mid- to late-Spring
Flower Type:Â Single
Fragrant Flowers:Â Â Yes, scent of orange blossoms!
Foliage Color:Â Green
Fragrant Foliage:Â No
Berries:Â Â Pear-shaped fruits
Berry Color:Â Green
Sun Needs:Â Full to Mostly Sun. All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade. Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun
Water Needs:Â Â Very Low when established
Soil Type:Â Â Clay (Amended), Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage:Â Well Drained Moist to Dry when established
Soil pH:Â 5.5Â –Â 7.0 (Acid to Neutral)
Maintenance / Care:Â Very Low if left to grow naturally
Attracts:Â Visual Attention
Resistances:Â Deer –Â more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
Green Pittosporum is a handsome, heat-loving, evergreen shrub that also goes by the common name of Japanese Mock Orange. Why Mock Orange? Because the white flowers produced at the tips of branches in spring have the delightful fragrance of orange blossoms.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 4 to 8 feet tall and wide (depending on pruning), Green Pittosporum is ideal for use as a dense, evergreen hedge. It can be maintained by clipping or shearing into a formal hedge at a minimum height of 4 to 5 feet. When our plant reached about 6 feet in height we removed some lower branches to form a very attractive tree-form specimen. In areas above USDA Planting Zone 8a, where not winter hardy, you can grow this one in containers that are overwintered indoors in a sun room or a greenhouse. It can also be grown year round as a houseplant provided it’s given plenty of light. Excellent salt spray tolerance lends well to seaside plantings. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, rock gardens, tropical look gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).
Note:Â For our customers who live and garden North of USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 8a, where this Pittosporum variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
Green Pittosporum is very easy to grow in most any well-drained loose soils of average fertility. Avoid sites with constantly soggy soil. Amend heavy clay soils to improve drainage. It grows equally as well in full sun as it does part shade. The one we have growing in our gardens since 2008 receives a just a few hours of morning sun and shade the rest of the day. It has demonstrated exceptional heat and drought tolerance and will rarely if ever need supplemental irrigation, even in prolonged drought. It is very low maintenance with no pruning necessary, however responds well to selective pruning and even shearing into formal shapes or hedges.
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