Planting & repotting / Topiaries (to prune)

The CYPRESS OF PROVENCE is THE hedge plant par excellence for small and large sizes. It blooms from the end of February to the beginning of March with ochre-brown flowers for male flowers and green for female flowers. This perennial conifer with evergreen foliage can reach more than 30 meters! Hardy, it likes exposure to the sun and partial shade on ordinary and drained soil. The CYPRESS OF PROVENCE is used as a hedge plant as a windbreak and as insulation for large gardens. It is planted in spring and autumn.

BOXWOOD is a beautiful shrub that probably best characterizes the French garden. When mature, this perennial shrub with persistent foliage will have a maximum height of 4 meters. It likes ordinary, rich and well-drained soils, preferably clayey limestone, and a sun-part shade exposure. It is one of the plants of excellence for structuring or highlighting your garden. Native to the Mediterranean basin, BOXWOOD flowers in April. Its growth is slow. Hardy, it is used in trimmed hedges or borders and is planted in spring or autumn.

A shrub with compact, semi-evergreen foliage, the PRIVET is mainly used to create free or trimmed hedges. However, some varieties deserve other decorative uses, such as growing in isolation, topiary or not. This perennial shrub with evergreen foliage - semi-evergreen depending on the variety - will reach between 1 and 10 meters in height at maturity. The PRIVET grows quickly. It adapts to any type of soil: clayey, calcareous, stony or heather soil but drained. It is planted in March or April or October-November and pruned in April, May, July, September, November and December.

The Pépinière des Aspres in Grasse offers you a wide selection of shrubs, trees and topiary plants to discover on site, including: