Well, I can say it's a hebe, and someone else can give you all the other details. Isn't this site wonderful? All your questions get an answer. I love it!
I have this one and it can take cutting back, when we bought this house there was one 6ft tall and wide, we cut it down to the ground after taking cuttings and found a standard weeping cotoneaster and berberis behind it. ten years on its about to get the same treatment as it is enormous again, not saying this is recommended but at the time I didn't mind if I lost it. The bees adore it in early autumn
Hebe Midsummer Beauty is a large, strong-growing, upright evergreen shrub, about 5 ft (1.5 m) high. The green leaves are spear-shaped, up to 4 in (10 cm) long, and purplish when young. The flowers are light violet fading to white, and occur in long spikes up to 12 in (30 cm) long, summer to late autumn. A hebe fairly hardy in the UK.
This hebe is good shrub for landscaping or a large garden; but for smaller gardens Hebe Edington is better (more compact and hardy, better leaf and flower colour).
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Well, I can say it's a hebe, and someone else can give you all the other details. Isn't this site wonderful? All your questions get an answer. I love it!
Hebe?, Really. this is at least 10 foot high, i didn't think hebe get that big. What kind is it and can cuttings be taken from it.
Looks like Midsummer Beauty. Many of the larger leaved varieties will get big. You can take cuttings from them
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Should have added - usually late summer/early autumn for cuttings
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have this one and it can take cutting back, when we bought this house there was one 6ft tall and wide, we cut it down to the ground after taking cuttings and found a standard weeping cotoneaster and berberis behind it. ten years on its about to get the same treatment as it is enormous again, not saying this is recommended but at the time I didn't mind if I lost it. The bees adore it in early autumn
Hebe Midsummer Beauty is a large, strong-growing, upright evergreen shrub, about 5 ft (1.5 m) high. The green leaves are spear-shaped, up to 4 in (10 cm) long, and purplish when young. The flowers are light violet fading to white, and occur in long spikes up to 12 in (30 cm) long, summer to late autumn. A hebe fairly hardy in the UK.
This hebe is good shrub for landscaping or a large garden; but for smaller gardens Hebe Edington is better (more compact and hardy, better leaf and flower colour).
Happy Grower
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks peeps, this one is in a hedgerow in my mum bungalow but was there when she moved in. The bee's are going mental for it.
sure of course
sorry I`m still newish around so not sure 100% about everything yet but I shall remember in future
btw I`m having issues with posting sometimes IE I cant & the emoticons are not active?
No probs THG - none of us know these things unless someone tells us
As for emoticons etc, there seems to be a blip on the forum this weekend - I'm sure the tech team will fix it when they're back after the weekend.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.