This easy-to-grow and versatile large shrub with handsome, glossy, deep green foliage produces huge clusters of fragrant, pearl-pink flowers in spring. Perfect for planting along driveways and parking medians where reflected heat is an issue. Useful as a background shrub, privacy screen, or small tree with single or multiple trunks. Evergreen.
Bloom Time
Spring
Deciduous/Evergreen
Evergreen
Special Features
Easy Care, Improved Pest and Disease Resistance, Ornamental Berries, Waterwise
Problems/Solutions
Coastal Exposure
Growth Rate
Moderate
Growth Habit
Rounded
Flower Attributes
Fragrant, Showy Flowers
Patent Act
Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent.
May be the most versatile of all evergreen shrubs. Excellent cover for foundation planting that takes afternoon sun in summer. Well proven for parking lots and along driveways where reflected heat is problematic. Outstanding structural bloomer for back of beds and borders. Suited to making a casual naturalistic privacy screen or sheared into sheared into a more formal hedge. Size is ideal for a small tree in courtyards, urban gardens and in limited front yards.
Grows easily in average, well-drained soils. Water deeply, regularly in first growing season to establish root system; reduce frequency, once established. Fertilize in early spring. For a formal appearance, prune annually after flowering; can be maintained as a shrub as small as 10 ft. tall, 6 ft. wide, with regular pruning.
Lore
Raphiolepis is one of the few plants that has no known human uses.
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Details
Description
This easy-to-grow and versatile large shrub with handsome, glossy, deep green foliage produces huge clusters of fragrant, pearl-pink flowers in spring. Perfect for planting along driveways and parking medians where reflected heat is an issue. Useful as a background shrub, privacy screen, or small tree with single or multiple trunks. Evergreen.
Bloom Time
Spring
Deciduous/Evergreen
Evergreen
Special Features
Easy Care, Improved Pest and Disease Resistance, Ornamental Berries, Waterwise
Problems/Solutions
Coastal Exposure
Growth Rate
Moderate
Growth Habit
Rounded
Flower Attributes
Fragrant, Showy Flowers
Patent Act
Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent.
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Style
May be the most versatile of all evergreen shrubs. Excellent cover for foundation planting that takes afternoon sun in summer. Well proven for parking lots and along driveways where reflected heat is problematic. Outstanding structural bloomer for back of beds and borders. Suited to making a casual naturalistic privacy screen or sheared into sheared into a more formal hedge. Size is ideal for a small tree in courtyards, urban gardens and in limited front yards.
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Care
Care Instructions
Grows easily in average, well-drained soils. Water deeply, regularly in first growing season to establish root system; reduce frequency, once established. Fertilize in early spring. For a formal appearance, prune annually after flowering; can be maintained as a shrub as small as 10 ft. tall, 6 ft. wide, with regular pruning.
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History
Lore
Raphiolepis is one of the few plants that has no known human uses.
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We have been pioneers and craftsmen in the art of growing plants for 100 years. Since our founding in Southern California by Harry E. Rosedale, Sr. in 1926, we have been absolutely dedicated and obsessed with quality.
We have been pioneers and craftsmen in the art of growing plants for nearly 100 years. Since our founding in Southern California by Harry E. Rosedale, Sr. in 1926, we have been absolutely dedicated and obsessed with quality.