Collection: Osmanthus

Osmanthus are slow, neat evergreens, fully hardy across most of Britain and tough enough for a windy or seaside garden once settled. They grow in sun or partial shade and need very little looking after.

Osmanthus x burkwoodii flowers in spring and is grown for its scent and as a screen.

'Goshiki' is the holly olive, with spiny, holly-like leaves marbled cream and yellow and flushed pink or bronze when young. It's slow and compact, about 1 to 1.5 metres after ten to twenty years, which makes it the best choice for a pot, though in time it will want a large one. It flowers only sparsely, in autumn.

Plant from March to May or September to November. Grown peat-free in Yorkshire.