Pittosporum for Irish Gardens

What This Collection Brings to the Garden

Pittosporums are evergreen shrubs valued for neat foliage, rounded or upright habits and year-round structure, particularly useful in sheltered borders and coastal areas.

Pittosporum brings glossy or variegated evergreen foliage, neat branching and a contemporary feel to mixed borders and screening. Compact varieties can also provide strong year-round structure in larger containers.

Why It Works in Irish Gardens

Pittosporum is particularly useful in milder Irish and coastal gardens, where many forms cope well with wind and salt. Colder inland sites should give less hardy varieties shelter from severe frost and cold drying winds.

Choosing the Right Plants

Choose by eventual height, foliage colour and habit. Compact forms suit smaller borders and pots, while larger pittosporums can become useful evergreen screens or background shrubs.

Planting and Care

Protect young plants from severe cold in more exposed inland positions. Pruning is usually light; trim after the main flush of growth if shaping is needed, rather than repeatedly cutting into old wood.