Garden Plant: John Edwards Italian Buckthorn
John Edwards Italian Buckthorn
Product Description: John Edwards Italian Buckthorn
Handsome Hedge for Year-Round Screening
Your Dream Italian Villa on the Amalfi Coast boasts a productive black olive grove and it’s hedged in Italian Buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus \’John Edwards’) to shelter it from the strong sea breezes.
We understand why you would want to choose this classic broadleaved evergreen – it’s lustrous, ovate leaves are a perfect foil to your ancient white marble statues of Poseidon and Athena. You have exquisite taste, after all!
You love your Italian Buckthorn so much, in fact, you even decided to bring it back to your “Stateside Estate” to use as a fast-growing screen and as a single specimen patio tree that shades your natural slate flagstone courtyard. One of these days, you swear You’re going to try your hand at creating a topiary out of this one!
Beautiful glossy green leaves grow pointing up, which gives this Mediterranean native a unique charm. It produces dark, coffee-colored berries which are loved by your local bird populations.
This narrow tree can be sheared without fear into the shape you want. It won’t need a lot of room at the base, so you can easily fit it into your magnificent home landscape. We’re just sure that You’ll love how fast it grows to block that less than desirable view of your neighbor’s gauche collection of garbage cans.
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- Fast-growing
- Clean, Crisp Gleaming Green Leaves
- Fits Into Most Landscapes
- Screening or Specimen Patio Tree