Hebe also known as Veronica

Hebe also known as Veronica

Hebe

Horticultural Points for Hebe

  • Evergreen shrubs keeping shape and form through winter
  • Ornamental planting invaluable at the seaside and as an ornamental hedge.
  • Easy to grow from cuttings
  • Varieties available that grow in many sizes.
  • Useful for low maintenance areas as the larger varieties fill the space quickly.
  • White and purple flowering varieties more popular and floriferous than the red flowers.

Aesthetic Qualities

  • Long racemes or spikes of flowers  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.
  • Dwarf varieties and shrublets, H. ‘gibbsii’ and H. ‘subsimilis astonii’ upto six foot specimens with H. ‘cupressoides’
  • Purple leaved varieties including H. Midsummer Beauty
  • Hebes in flower attract insects particularly bees and hoverflies

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  1. You don’t state the growing areas for this particular beautiful bush I am in Florida zone nine could I use it down here?

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