(Herunterladen) Leycesteria Plant

Pruning and caring for himalayan honeysuckle.

Leycesteria plant. Leycesteria plants are low maintenance and easy to grow. Himalayan honeysuckle is a woody shrub often included in the perennial border. Indifferently in fall or spring. Leycesteria formosa the himalayan honeysuckle planting himalayan honeysuckle. Prune back hard each spring to keep plants within their available space and encourage new colourful growth. Plants produce upright bamboo like hollow stems of a beautiful powdery. You can cut back lightly each time after the blooming in order to induce.

Multiply through crown division in fall or through. We have found that both species which we offer are quick to naturalise themselves often quite a way apart from the original clump in thickish cover. The luscious green leaves are only half of this leycesteria plant s story. Medium shrub typically grow to around 4 6 feet in height upright thicket forming shrub with attractive bamboo like first year shoots. Genus leycesteria are deciduous shrubs with hollow stems simple leaves and terminal and axillary racemes of tubular flowers followed by fleshy berries details l. Growing leycesteria this is a genus of suckering deciduous shrubs with hollow cane like stems. From july to september the leycesteria little lanterns will produce astonishing white flowers with purple bracts.

How to grow leycesteriaformosa plant size 2 5m height 2 5m spread aspect south facing west facing position in border middle back. Formosa is a vigorous. Crocothyrsos is a deciduous upright shrub with arching shoots reaching a height and spread of 2m with slender pointed ovate leaves up to 15cm long and conspicuously veined. Plants produce upright bamboo like hollow stems of a beautiful powdery grey colour. Flowers are in pendent spikes to 10cm 4in long. Hardy average winter hardy through most of the uk apart from inland valleys at altitude and central northerly locations. Leycesteria are deciduous shrubs sometimes referred to as himalayan honeysuckle or flowering nutmeg.