Collection Pom pom trees
Grown Tuscany, Italy
Sold as Matched pairs
From £350 the pair
Pom Pom Trees — Matched Pairs
Clustered spheres. Singular charm.
Clusters of clipped spheres held aloft on open branchwork — in golden cypress, steel-blue cypress, English yew and silver olive. Every listing is a true matched pair: selected together in Tuscany, raised side by side, and photographed side by side at our UK depot.
Matched pairs from £350 · delivered kerbside UK-wide
How to chooseMany spheres.One sculpture.
What a pom pom tree actually is — and how to keep it being one.
What a pom pom tree is
Several clipped spheres — usually three to seven — distributed across an exposed framework of bare branches, so the globes appear to float at different heights on one plant. It sits between formal topiary and cloud pruning: geometry you can measure, held up with a lightness formal shapes never have. Each sphere is grown, clipped and maintained as its own separate piece.
Pom pom, cloud tree or bonsai?
The confusion is understandable; the distinction is simple. A pom pom carries true spheres on its framework — round, deliberate, geometric. A cloud tree carries organic pads that billow rather than ball. A topiary bonsai adds the authored, sculptural trunk and the tightest pads of all. Same family of ideas, three different registers of formality.
Keeping the spheres distinct
The gaps between the globes are not empty space — the separations are the form. Let two spheres merge and the plant slides towards a blob; keep them distinct and the silhouette reads as sculpture from across the street. In practice that means treating each sphere as its own small trimming job, once or twice a year, and clearing any shoots that appear on the bare branchwork between them.
Where pom pomsearn their keep.
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The courtyard character piece
Courtyards want one plant with personality, not ten with none — and a pom pom is personality by construction: sculptural enough to hold a sightline on its own, light enough on its open branchwork never to loom over a small space. Set a pair against calm paving and render, uplight them at night, and the shadows do half the work. The courtyard collection is built around exactly this thinking.
The Mediterranean register
The olive pom pom is the range's silver voice: sea-grey spheres on aged, characterful trunks that arrive with decades of story already in the bark. In gravel gardens, terracotta and sun-baked terraces it looks native rather than styled — give it full sun and sharp winter drainage and it asks for one unhurried trim a year in return.
Colour on branchwork
Most topiary is green; pom poms come in gold and steel. The Gold Rider cypress carries bright, warm-gold spheres that read like permanent sunshine at a gate, while the blue Arizona cypress brings a cool architectural blue-grey that flatters modern render and dark window frames. Both hold their colour through winter, when the garden needs it most.
Four characters.Every price, honest.
Drag through the pairs — matched-pair prices including VAT, banded by size and age.
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Steel-blue spheres, cool and architectural — the modernist's pom pom.
£350 – £635
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Pom pom pairs run £350 to £2,190 — mid-market against the full topiary canon, with the conifers carrying the entry point and yew the specimen end. Where each pound goes is set out in the topiary prices guide.
Which pom pom.For which garden.
Pick by site and patience first — the look follows.
N° 01
For contemporary schemes — grey render, dark frames, gravel. Full sun, easy-going, the range's entry point. Never trim into bare wood.
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For colour at the gate or against dark evergreens — brightest in full sun. Light little-and-often trims; like all conifers, never into bare wood.
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For sun-baked courtyards, terraces and pots — needs sharp winter drainage, then asks almost nothing. The only silver in the range.
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For shade, exposure and the long view — the toughest and longest-lived pom pom, happy where the cypresses and olive aren't. Regrows from old wood.
Whichever you choose, the maintenance contract is the same: trim each sphere separately and keep the separations crisp, water well through the first year, and give roots real drainage. The full regime is in the complete care guide and the first-year guide.
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Selected together · raised side by side · photographed before dispatch
Buying pom poms.Quick answers.
The questions buyers actually ask, answered by the growers.
What is a pom pom tree?
A tree or shrub trained so that several clipped spheres sit on an exposed framework of bare branches — globes floating at different heights on one plant. It sits between formal topiary and cloud pruning: proper geometry, carried with a lightness a single clipped shape never has. Each sphere is maintained as its own separate piece.
What pom pom trees are for sale in the UK?
Our range covers four species, each sold as a true matched pair: golden cypress (Gold Rider), blue Arizona cypress, English yew and olive — grown in Tuscany and photographed side by side at our UK depot before dispatch.
How much do pom pom trees cost?
Matched pairs run from £350 to £2,190 including VAT, banded by size and age. The cypresses carry the entry point (blue from £350, gold from £370), olive pairs are £875, and English yew runs £940 to £2,190 at specimen scale. The market logic behind those numbers is in the topiary prices guide.
How do you trim and maintain a pom pom tree?
Treat each sphere as its own small job — clip it round, then move to the next — and keep the separations between spheres distinct: the gaps are the form. Once or twice a year is plenty. One hard rule for the cypresses: never cut back into bare wood, because conifer foliage doesn't regrow from it — trim little and often within the green. Yew, generously, forgives almost anything.
What's the difference between a pom pom and a cloud tree?
Geometry. A pom pom carries true spheres — round, deliberate, measurable — while a cloud tree carries soft organic pads that billow along the branch line. Pom poms read as playful formality; clouds read as landscape sculpture. A topiary bonsai is the third register: authored trunk, tightest pads, specimen pricing.
Can pom pom trees grow in pots?
Yes — and the olive actively prefers one in Britain, because a pot guarantees the winter drainage it insists on. Use a generous frost-proof planter with real drainage holes, and expect slightly more watering in summer. The full container manual is in the pots guide.
Are pom pom trees hardy?
The conifers and yew are fully hardy anywhere in the UK — yew is the toughest plant on the page and takes shade and exposure in its stride. Olive is hardier than its reputation suggests, but it is drainage that decides its winter, not temperature: sun plus a free-draining root run and it shrugs off frost. The first-year guide covers settling all of them in.
How are pom pom trees delivered — and guaranteed?
Kerbside on a pallet by specialist haulier, anywhere in the UK, 14–21 working days from order; the driver telephones about an hour ahead. Every pair travels with the 7-day Matching Guarantee, the 6-month Thrive Guarantee through establishment, and Lifetime Care Support after that — details at delivery & returns.
Matched beforeyou ever see it.
Two plants, selected together in Tuscany, raised as twins — so the symmetry at your gate is grown, not approximate.
Your actual pair, side by side at our UK depot, before the pallet is built.
7-day Matching Guarantee, then the 6-month Thrive Guarantee through establishment.
Lifetime Care Support — a photo gets grower answers for as long as you own the plants.
