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Nursery Direct
English Box
Buxus sempervirens
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosGetting it in: the largest size here needs machine access rather than a doorway, and sometimes a lift over the roof. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
Looking for a larger size?
Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
English Box, Buxus sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens is the definitive formal hedging and topiary specimen, dense, refined, and built for structure. Few plants deliver the same architectural precision across both grand estate landscapes and considered urban projects.
Why English Box
Structure and Form: Dense, fine-textured foliage holds a crisp edge under regular clipping, purpose-built for formal hedging, parterres, and defined borders.
Longevity: A slow-growing, long-lived species that matures into an enduring landscape asset, appreciating in presence over decades.
Versatility: Equally at home as low border hedging, geometric topiary, or massed screening at advanced sizes.
Year-Round Presence: Evergreen and consistent, maintains its visual weight and colour through all seasons without attention.
Proven Pedigree: The benchmark hedging plant for formal European landscape design, with centuries of use in prestige settings worldwide.
Ideal Applications
Formal Hedging: Low to mid-height borders defining pathways, courtyards, and property boundaries with architectural clarity.
Parterre and Knot Gardens: The preferred species for geometric ground-level patterning in estate and heritage-style landscapes.
Topiary Specimens: Supplied at advanced sizes for immediate sculptural impact, spheres, cones, and custom forms ready to install.
Entrance Framing: Paired flanking specimens or clipped runs at entry points deliver instant formality and a sense of arrival.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 0.3 to 0.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1 to 2m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring
Soil & Drainage: Well-drained, fertile soil; adaptable to a range of soil types but dislikes waterlogged conditions
Establishment Care: Water regularly during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system; apply a balanced slow-release fertiliser in spring and mulch around the base to retain moisture and suppress weeds.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 5m
Width: 1 to 3m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Native to: Western and Southern Europe, Northwest Africa, Southwest Asia
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







