Sweet Almond Bush South Florida

Their color is pink and they are double flowers.

Sweet almond bush south florida. When i first bought the sweet almond i wanted it to be a potted plant on my florida lanai. Butterflies and humming birds love this plant. The sweet almond bush makes a great addition to any butterfly garden. Plant this wonderful bush and watch the vistors come by and stay.

Its flowers have a lovely fragrance and attract butterflies with their nectar. The main issue with starting new almond trees in florida is the cool temperatures that are best for planting. I have a love hate relationship with my over 10 foot tall 4 year old sweet almond bush. On jun 11 2019 tommyboy58 from lakeland fl wrote.

In northern florida this plant will freeze back but will regrow as a 3 4 shrub. Sweet almond can be a bush or tree. The plant is sometimes called almond verbena. In the lingo of plant taxonomy this pink flowered bush is called prunus glandulosa rosea plena the cultivar name breaks down as rosea meaning pink and plena meaning full or double this name thus tells you two things about the flowers.

It didn t do so well and kept dying off then rebounding. Ships as fully rooted cutting ready to plant. Also known as incense bush or sweet almond verbena sweet almond bush aloysia virgata is a deciduous shrub that produces spikes of white honeybee attracting blooms and aromatic foliage. As much as it.

X linkedin 0 stumbleupon 0. The almond tree which grows well in warm areas is suited to the florida climate in general. The sweet almond bush has a great fragrance of vanilla almond in the late afternoon and evening. Dead heading of spent flowers will not be needed.

Sweet almond shrubs offer scalloped leaves and showy white flowers that exude a powerful honeyed fragrance. It started out as an 18 inch long stick with some puny roots attached and now look at it. Email 2 facebook 13 twitter 0 reddit 0. Sweet almond bush is a plant that has won many fans in the american south.

It is also relatively drought tolerant making it a good option for xeriscaping. It helps if the trees are dormant during planting so they don t try to start producing fruit as soon as they are placed in the ground. Dwarf flowering almond is a multi stemmed deciduous shrub. One butterfly that is especially attracted to its flowers is the rare atala butterfly.

May be a good shrub to plant near vegetable gardens and fruiting trees to invite pollinators in to visit.