Escallonia Rose
Adding fertilizer in spring will increase blooming in summer.
Escallonia rose. Full sun full sun to partial shade. Zone 9a 6 7 c 20 f to 3 9 c 25 f maximum recommended zone. Pp 23 984 item form. Masses of sweetly scented summer to fall blooms amid spicily aromatic glossy green leaves put escallonias escallonia spp among the showiest of ornamental shrubs.
Plants can grow to 15 feet 4 5 m in either direction depending on the cultivar. 7 9 bloom start to end. Family escalloniaceae name status rhs accepted name. Escallonia is a shrub for which the adding of fertilizer and water helps favor the growth of the shrub.
Escallonia shrubs grow relatively fast and have both attractive foliage and lovely flowers. Recommended citation escallonia rosea from the website trees and shrubs online treesandshrubsonline. Slightly acid 6 1 6 5 neutral 6 6 7 3 slightly alkaline 7 4 7 8 minimum cold hardiness. 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.
Light green medium green. Escallonia escallonia rosea general plant information. Evergreen semi evergreen or deciduous shrubs and trees grown for their masses of flowers and glossy foliage. Last listed in the rhs plant finder in 2002.
Watering over the 2 first years after planting is recommended to promote root development. Potted escallonia requires more frequent watering because the soil dries off much faster. Mesic dry mesic dry. Hummingbird lovers needs deadheading butterfly lovers easy care plants bloom color.
The blossoms are tube shaped generally white pink or red and appear on leafy panicles in summer. Branchlets downy and distinctly angled. Early spring early fall habit. Coastal gardeners in u s.
24 in 3 ft plant width. It never happened before ruth says. Excellant for hedging in mild coastal areas as they are quite wind resistant. Escallonia rosea join the rhs today and get 12 months for the price of 9.
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. 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. Pink elle lades ppaf.