£19.99

A versatile large, broadly columnar evergreen shrub with slender, dark shoots. Leaves rounded, glossy light green, with wavy margins. Small, honey-scented deep purple flowers open in clusters in late spring and early summer

Type

• Shrubs

Award of Garden Merit

Foliage: Evergreen

Hardiness: Hardy

Vigour: Medium growing

Uses

• Beds and borders
• Flower arranging
• Cottage style garden
• Contemporary style garden
• Gravel garden
• Hedging

Special features

• Evergreen
• Winter interest

Care instructions

Grow in moist but well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade. If required prune in mid-Spring when growth has started. Trim hedges again in midsummer.

Dimensions

Size: Large

Pot size: 9cm

Eventual height: 800cm

Eventual spread: 400cm

Positions

• Light shade
• Sun

Aspects

• South
• East
• West

Soil types

• Sandy
• Normal

Soil pH ranges

• Acid
• Neutral
• Alkaline