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Hebe Green Globe/Emerald Green

sharanshrubssharanshrubs Posts: 74
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Are Hebe Green Globe/Hebe Emerald Green readily available from local garden centres? At what time of year are they usually available please? I would really like to buy local rather than order online. 
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  • sharanshrubssharanshrubs Posts: 74
    sorry ignore 'readily available'. I meant 'usually'!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @sharanshrubsNow is as good a time as any. The only thing I would say is there are so many perhaps a call to Nursery or GC first would save on petrol.Also it's not wise to plant out anything in a drought. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    We bought ours from Aldi.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited July 2022
    Aldi, even better! I would add check the plants are in good health both supermarkets and GC's are struggling to keep things watered.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • sharanshrubssharanshrubs Posts: 74
    Thank you all. I will try Aldi! 
  • SYinUSASYinUSA Posts: 243
    Silly question, but how do you pronounce hebe? Is it one syllable (heeb) or two (hee-bee)?
  • AstroAstro Posts: 433
    I've bought them from B&Q for about  £6 if I remember right.

    I usually hear Hebe pronounced hee bee.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited July 2022
    Hee bee for me as well  @SYinUSA   :)
  • Tam_ThumbTam_Thumb Posts: 49
    I bought 2 hebe red edge from my local garden centre, planted them 2m apart and kept them watered, 1 took fine the other just started to die off, not a clue why it did that, got a hebe caledonia from B&M to replace it with and it's taken off and there's flowers on it already.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    They are a great little evergreen shrub, I’m very pleased with mine and they seem to be coping with heat and drought very well:

    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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