Versatile Escallonia (Escallonia)

Member Name: trevorm50

Product:	Escallonia
Date:	19/05/01 (1875 review reads)
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Advantages: Evergreen, Pungent leaves, Profuse flowers

Disadvantages: can get too big

In my 20 years experience as a grower I have propagated and grown many shrubs, the escallonia being one of them. It is easy to propagate and grow and will withstand most british winters, it will tolerate a higher pH than most other shrubs and some types tolerate salt winds it is therefore often seen planted along costal areas. They are evergreen some have pungent leaves when cushed and all flower in profusion in the summer / early autumn, mainly red and pink but the variety Iveyi has waxy icing cake, white flowers and scallonia apple blossom is very nice with clusters of pink and white flowers, mimicing the true apple blossom They are nice to have as a single specimen or next to a wall possibly instead of ceanothus that hasn't faired so well this winter? They also make excellent hedges and windbreaks although Escallonia woodside is a dwarf form and is the exception .

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