Escallonia White Flowers
It s a great hedging choice that s been given the rhs award of garden merit and the perfect for pollinators title.
Escallonia white flowers. Foliage glossy green. Growth rate medium to fast. Crimson spire is a good hedging form with light crimson flowers. It is relatively fast growing at approx 30 45cm p a.
Frost hardy and drought tolerant once established. X apple blossom produces early and midsummer flowers in shades of white pink and red. Ideal for hedges borders or screening. Escallonia iveyi or white flowering escallonia is an upright evergreen variety of escallonia with white fragrant flowers.
The blossoms are tube shaped generally white pink or red and appear on leafy panicles in summer. We have numerous varieties available. Escallonia looks good as a specimen shrub but also makes a great hedge and is often used for hedging in coastal gardens where it is very suitable for growing. Escallonia iveyi hedge plants description escallonia iveyi is suitable for most soils and situations and is particularly well suited to coastal areas but is not shade tolerant and does not like extremely cold positions.
Plants can grow to 15 feet 4 5 m in either direction depending on the cultivar. Donard brilliance has large leaves and crimson flowers on arching. Height to 5ft 1 5m. Escallonia iveyi produces large dark green glossy leaves that grow thickly.
Escallonia shrubs grow relatively fast and have both attractive foliage and lovely flowers. Popular varieties of escallonia grown in the uk. 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 iveyi is a vigorous medium sized evergreen shrub with fairly large glossy dark green leaves and large panicles of pure white flowers in mid and late summer. Summary information botanical name escallonia common name escallonia flower colour white to pink depending on variety flowering time spring to early summer on into autumn depending on conditions.
Escallonia iveyi is a quick growing evergreen plant with fragrant white flowers in summer. Escallonia is a pretty shrub evergreen with lovely glossy leaves and a profusion of flowers in late spring and early summer which are usually pink red or white and in some varieties scented.