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Are your Caryopteris flowering yet?

NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
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I have a new Sterling Silver which has grown well into an attractive bushy shrub, but no sign of flowers yet. It’s meant to flower August-September but usually things are well ahead of schedule in my climate..

Do they take a while to establish before flowering?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Mine has just started flowering, it’s been in the ground for 3 years and I am in the West Midlands if that helps. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Not yet.
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    There are buds just about visible on mine so they'll be flowering in a few weeks. I think they're a bit later than usual - maybe due drought or heat or the cold dry spring, or some combination. I don't water them. They're quite old now (probably getting on for 20 years). I don't remember them taking a few years to start flowering, and they'd have been bought as small young plants because I didn't have a lot of money then.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Thanks guys, just patience required as usual then. Ah, yes I did have a severe late frost in April, which might have set it back Jenny.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    I bought my Caryopteris last year with flowers in September. No flowers so far.

    I ♥ my garden.

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I have 2 bluebeard - no sign of any flowers yet either and not looking great thanks to the drought

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Mine's been flowering for the last week or so - an old established plant up on a raised bed.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    My Caryopteris "Heavily blue" starts now to flower.

    I ♥ my garden.

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I have buds, so that’s a start!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Ours is quite established and has just started to open some flowers. We’re in Birmingham. I think mine is a Heavenly Blue as well
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    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
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