the plant works as a low informal hedge
and any moist or irrigated bed
this cultivar holds the blossoms upright and alert
As a Woodlanders selection of the evergreen southern sweetbay
" Evergreen and good-looking
Osmanthus x fortunei ‘San Jose' Bob McCartney the plant works as aOsmanthus x fortunei 'San Jose' is a large, upright member of Fortune's tea olive, the garden hybrid that crosses the false holly, Osmanthus heterophyllus, with the sweet olive, Osmanthus fragrans. Among the fortunei clones, 'San Jose' stands apart for thinner, more finely toothed leaves and a taller, more upright habit, a plant that reaches for height where others spread. This is one of the bigger tea olives, building over time into a dense evergreen