Bloemen-flowers Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver Queen

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Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver Queen is an evergreen plant and is a native plant in China and Japan.
This plant gets 5 cm long leaves with a gray / green heart and on the outside a fine creme / white colored border. Grows naturally in a beautifully shaped shrub of up to 3 meters high. May be pruned in late autumn.

It blooms from May to July and is then full of creme-colored flowers that turn to white. These flowers smell delicious!
This Pittosporum is for our climate in a sheltered place hardy and also suitable to keep as a tub plant.
Pittosporum can overwinter in a sheltered place and does not necessarily have to go inside, only if a strong frost is predicted to provide some protection.
Adhesive seed does not have to have excessively much water in the summer (soil slightly damp) and give a small amount of manure once a month is sufficient. The pittosporum can be planted in the open ground and prefers to be in the full sun on the south.
Winter hardiness zone 8b (-10ºC).