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Escallonias are typically evergreen shrub with flowers in gabardine , pink or bolshie and glossy folio .
Originally hailing from South America , these are reasonably hardy plants on the whole , though some are hardier than others.1Escallonia rubra . ( n.d . ) . Kew Royal Botanic Gardens . retrieve March 15 , 2023 , fromhttps://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:791101-1
However , it is sound to avoid maturate them in field where the temperature overlook below around -5 ° C .
“ Escallonia is a really utile works for the coastal areas of the westerly and southern UK where temperatures are more mild on ordinary in wintertime , ” shares Horticulturist Colin Skelly .
“ They are resistant of salt spraying , so can make a good shelter belt hedge in coastal locations . ”
These shrubs fare in various sizes , some useful as cover or in hedge , others good in borderline .
When in flower , they are greatbee - friendly plants , attracting bees and other pollinators to your garden .
If you are expect for an escallonia to grow , you will before long pick up a bewildering array of options on fling .
Here are fifteen of my personal favourites :
1)E.‘Apple Blossom’
This is a compactevergreen shrubwhich grows up to 2.5 m marvelous with a similar spread .
It has small , dismal green , glossy leaves and flowers , 12 millimeter in width , that are turn out on scant leafy racemes from other summer .
They are pale pink and white .
2)E.bifida
Growing to around 3 m in pinnacle , with a spread of up to 2.5 m , this bush , also known as bisulcate box gum , has glossy , dark - green leaves .
In former summer and autumn , it bears rounded panicle of stark blank flowers with spreading petals .
3)E. rubra‘Crimson Spire’
A rather vigorous bush , this option can grow up to around 4 K in altitude and width .
It blooms with beautiful deep red flowers bear in compendious racemes in the summer and early autumn .
4)E.‘Donard Radiance’
Small and compact yet vigorous , this evergreen bush has comparatively big , showy , rounded , deep greenish leaves .
It bears attractive rose red , goblet - shaped flowers in raceme in early and mid - summertime and has a height and spreading of up to 2.5 m.
5 )E.‘Donard Seedling’
With a similar height and spread to the above , this choice has leather - corresponding , glossy sorry dark-green leaves which cause the disk - shaped white to blanch pink prime to stand out .
These blooms are just a short over 1 cm across and undefended in early summertime from bud that are pallid pink .
6)E.‘Glowing Embers’
This escallonia is a compact evergreen plant mature to around 1.2 m , notable for the vibrant leafage that give it its name .
The leave-taking open yellow and flushed with red before suppurate to golden yellow and then mid - light-green .
In mid to late summertime , the plant also carry small clump of tubelike deep pinkish flower .
7)E. laevis‘Gold Brian’
Smallish in size of it , grow to around 1 - 1.5 m in height and cattle ranch , this pick has leave which get going off yellow before turning greenish - yellow by summertime .
Deeppink flowers bloom from this shaggy evergreen shrubin summer .
8)E.‘Golden Carpet’
This is a midget escallonia cultivar that grows to around 60 cm tall , spreading to make a secure ground cover .
It has small yellowish parting which turn lime green in the summer , and small tubular crimson flower which bloom through the summer months .
9)E.‘Iveyi’
Growing around 2.5 m grandiloquent and wide , this escallonia has large , dark gullible , calendered foliage and bears panicles of pure white flowers that endure out well against the foliation in summertime .
10)E.‘Langleyensis’
Also grow up to around 2.5 MB in height and spread , this escallonia has a pleasingly graceful arching habit .
It has small obovate folio and , in the early summer , bears short leafy racemes of deep rose - pinkish flowers .
11)E.‘Peach Blossom’
With a tallness and spread of between 1.5 - 2.5 grand , this escallonia has a bushy , evergreen pattern .
It has small-scale , abstruse greenish parting and bears clusters of clear mid - pinkish blossom from early in the summertime .
12)E. laevis‘Pink Elle’
comparatively succinct and uprise to around 1 - 1.5 m tall and wide , this evergreenshrub is notable for flowering in summerand again , less prolifically , in the fall .
The flowers are a adorable vivacious garden pink in hue , bear in large heads of flock flower .
13)E.‘Pride of Donard’
This rather vigorous and spread bush grows to around 1.5 MB in height and breadth .
It has turgid , deep green , shiny leaf and , from early summer , bears short racemes of vivid rose - red blooms around 15 millimetre across .
14)E.‘Red Dream’
Growing to only around 1 m in height and spreading , this compendious escallonia is an evergreen with midget non-white green folio .
From mid - summertime until other autumn , it is covered with pocket-size clusters of hopeful red prime .
15)E.rubravar.macrantha
near for hedge , this escallonia , also known as Chilean gum boxful , can grow to around 8 m in summit and banquet .
However , it reply well to pruning and can work well as a hedge .
It has small-scale , dark , glossy leave of absence and carry loose clusters of pinkish to dark reddish - pinkish flower from mid - summer until the fall .
Of naturally , these are just some of the many options of escallonia to choose from , but these varieties could be a good place to get when look for the right diverseness for your garden .
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