19+ Escallonia Rose

Zone 9a 6 7 c 20 f to 3 9 c 25 f maximum recommended zone.

Escallonia rose. Adding fertilizer in spring will increase blooming in summer. Full sun full sun to partial shade. Leaves narrowly obovate 1 3 to 1 in. Potted escallonia requires more frequent watering because the soil dries off much faster. An evergreen bushy shrub usually 4 to 8 ft high but twice as high when trained against a wall or grown in very mild localities. Org articles escallonia escallonia rosea. Light green medium green.

Recommended citation escallonia rosea from the website trees and shrubs online treesandshrubsonline. Excellant for hedging in mild coastal areas as they are quite wind resistant. Watering over the 2 first years after planting is recommended to promote root development. 7 9 bloom start to end. Evergreen semi evergreen or deciduous shrubs and trees grown for their masses of flowers and glossy foliage. Genus escallonia are evergreen shrubs with glossy leathery toothed leaves sometimes sticky and 5 petalled white pink or red flowers in terminal racemes or panicles in summer and early autumn details pink elle is a bushy evergreen shrub with large heads of mid pink flowers from summer and again less prolifically in autumn. Early spring early fall habit.

Last listed in the rhs plant finder in 2002. Pp 23 984 item form. Hummingbird lovers needs deadheading butterfly lovers easy care plants bloom color. Branchlets downy and distinctly angled. The blossoms are tube shaped generally white pink or red and appear on leafy panicles in summer. 24 in 3 ft additional characteristics. Family escalloniaceae name status rhs accepted name.

Pink elle lades ppaf. Slightly acid 6 1 6 5 neutral 6 6 7 3 slightly alkaline 7 4 7 8 minimum cold hardiness. Masses of sweetly scented summer to fall blooms amid spicily aromatic glossy green leaves put escallonias escallonia spp among the showiest of ornamental shrubs. Mesic dry mesic dry. Escallonia problems the hedge which is the small leaved variety is about 6 years old and it is not unusual for the leaves of this type of escallonia to blacken and shed in winter especially if it received a touch of freezing breezes. It never happened before ruth says. Escallonia is a shrub for which the adding of fertilizer and water helps favor the growth of the shrub.

Escallonia rosea join the rhs today and get 12 months for the price of 9. Escallonia escallonia rosea general plant information. Escallonia shrubs grow relatively fast and have both attractive foliage and lovely flowers.