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Easy to grow and give you so much back, the Blooming Abelia Collection are semi-evergreen in most winters, a warm retreat for wildlife and the perfect plants for a sunny area in your garden. Beautiful, tubular, trumpet-shaped blooms produce a fragrance of sweet honey scent which attract bees and butterflies. Thriving in borders or containers, Abelia can also be used as informal hedging. Collection comprises; Francis Mason – the Glossy Abelia with oval, shiny, yellow-green leaves which are tinted with warm red-orange shades when young, clusters of pink blush flowers from midsummer into the autumn, height 1.5m, spread 2m, hardy to -10 C; Sherwood – a relatively compact plant with glossy dark green foliage which turns a slight shade of bronze in autumn, white blooms in summer, which graduate to pink, height 1.3m, spread 1.5m, hardy to -15 C; and x grandiflora Lucky Lots – a beautiful low growing shrub with silver-green variegated foliage which changes to an autumnal orange hue from September, pure white blooms throughout the summer months, height and spread 1m, hardy to -20 C. The Blooming Abelia Collection are simple to grow and look after, being winter hardy, and prefer to be grown in moist, well-drained soil, in a sunny aspect, with shelter from the coldest winds.
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Key Information
Included In this Collection | Abelia x grandiflora Lucky Lots 9cm pot | Abelia x grandiflora Sherwood 9cm pot | Abelia x grandiflora Francis Mason 9cm pot |
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Latin Name | Abelia x grandiflora ‘Lucky Lots’ | ||
Hardiness | H4 (-5 to -10°C) | ||
Colour | White | ||
Type | Shrub | ||
Format | 9cm Pots | ||
Position | Full-Sun | ||
Foliage | Semi-Evergreen | ||
Height in Maturity (m) | 1.00 | ||
Spread in Maturity (m) | 1.00 | ||
Soil Conditions | Chalk Loam Sand | ||
Soil Acidity | Acid Alkaline Neutral | ||
Aspect | East-facing, South-facing | ||
Scented | Yes | ||
Good for pots | Yes | ||
Good for wildlife | Yes | ||
Good for pollinators | Yes | ||
Good for cutting | Yes |