Artificial Green Miniature Boxwood Ball In Stone-look Pot

Keeping a real boxwood ball this neat takes regular trimming, the right conditions and a fair amount of patience. One missed cut and it starts to look ragged. This one holds its shape permanently.

The ball itself is tightly packed with small, oval leaves in a range of greens, from a deeper olive tone where the foliage is denser through to a brighter, fresher green on the outer leaves where the light catches.

Some leaves carry the kind of slight spotting and colour variation you'd see on a living plant. It's those imperfections that make it convincing up close.

The trunk forks naturally below the canopy and rises from a bed of moss inside a small, stone-look pot with a rough, mineral-flecked finish.

At 40cm tall and 20cm wide, it has the proportions of a classic tabletop topiary. It suits a hallway console, bathroom shelf, kitchen windowsill or mantlepiece, and looks especially good styled as a pair either side of a mirror or doorway.

No clipping. No feeding. No brown patches after a cold snap. Just a tidy, structured little plant that stays exactly as it is.