(Herunterladen) Chinese Fringe Flower Ruby

Visit your local garden center to see which cultivars are available in your area.

Chinese fringe flower ruby. Take a 6 inch cutting of new growth softwood and remove the leaves along the bottom half of the stem. Clusters of pink fringe flowers bloom heaviest in early spring then sporadically year round accompanying the shiny ruby red young leaves and green older leaves. Loropetalum plants are native to japan china and the himalayas. Prepare a clean container with drainage. A fast growing evergreen shrub that blooms boldly in spring chinese fringe flower delivers long lasting interest to your landscape. The leaves are oval and glossy green set on stems with crinkly brown bark. Free flowering loropetalum chinese fringe flower are showy evergreen shrubs with clusters of pink red or white spider like flowers reminiscent of those of witch hazels.

The winter hardy plant keeps its leaves. This is how we maintain colour in the garden all year round. Blooms appear in march to april and last for up to two weeks on the stems. Dip the end of the cutting into a rooting medium 0 1 to 0 3 works well. Add it to a foundation planting or incorporate it in a perennial border for its evergreen foliage and shrubby texture. Loropetalum chinense ruby sku 2564 possibly the smallest of the lorapetalum varieties having a compact more rounded form. You can see the similarity of the flower to that of the namesake shrub of this family witch hazel shrub which also bears a fringe like bloom.

Unusual clusters of pink fringe flowers bloom year round accompanying the shiny ruby red young leaves. If you wish to plant a chinese fringe bush in a small space choose a smaller cultivar such as ruby or raspberry fringe if your existing chinese fringe bush outgrows its area prune as needed. Excellent for adding pizzazz and year round interest to the landscape. Cover with a plastic dome or a plastic bag. Chinese loropetalum the official name of the plant is an evergreen multi stemmed shrub of the broadleaf variety that s part of witch hazel family. At the end of spring white blade shaped flowers bloom on the fringe flower. Rubrum crimson fire chinese fringe flower is a dwarf bushy evergreen shrub of neat compact habit with rich ruby red leaves which retain their color and persist all year round.

That is the chinese fringe flower ruby snow loropetalum chinense. Here s what you need to do.