Why Grow Hebe also known as Veronica

Hebe

Plus Points for Hebe

  • Evergreen shrubs keeping shape and form through winter
  • Ornamental planting invaluable at the seaside and as an ornamental hedge
  • Long racemes or spikes of flowers that attract bees and hoverfly
  • Colour range from purple, lavender, blue and stunning white due to the volume of flower from June to late summer depending on variety.
  • Easy to grow from cuttings
  • Dwarf varieties and shrublets, H. ‘gibbsii’ and H. ‘subsimilis astonii’ upto six foot specimens with H. ‘cupressoides’
  • Purple leaved varieties including H. Midsummer Beauty
  • Useful for low maintenance areas as the larger varieties fill the space quickly
  • Hebes in flower attract insects particularly bees and hoverflies
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