‘Magic Marlot’

• Compact evergreen shrub grows perfectly in containers to give a wonderful display. Forms a  mounded, upright, evergreen that works for the border, garden bed or large containers.
• The variegated foliage is medium green with a cream edge.
• Autumn produces green-white buds that turn wine red as the temperature drops.
• Spring brings rich-flowering, pink tinged white blooms.
• Tolerant of heat, frost, shade and dry soils.
• Spacing   24 – 36″,  Height : 12 – 18″,  Width : 12 – 24″

 

Skimmia ‘Kew Green’

• This low to medium sized shade tolerant shrub provides much needed winter blossom.
• Scent from male plants  is followed by attractive berries on the female form.
• Attractive foliage and makes Skimmias ideal as ground cover in problematic shady areas.
• Skimmia ‘Kew Green’ prefers a well drained neutral to acidic soil that is reasonably fertile yet well drained,
• Skimmia flourishes in full or partial shade.
• Trim to shape after flowering and mulch occasionally.
• Ideal flowering shrub for problem clay soils.

 

Rubella’  Award of Garden Merit (AGM)

• There are numerous lovely skimmias, generally from the Himalayas and the Far East. Skimmias form evergreen shrubs of varying heights.
• Most are ‘dioecious’, meaning they have male and female flowers on different plants, and both sexes must be planted to ensure a crop of fruits.
• ‘Rubella’ is a compact male variety with attractive red-margined, dark green leaves.
• The flower buds, which appear in autumn and winter, are a prominent feature of the plant, as are the scented flowers which open in spring.
• It is perfect for growing in containers and provides good all year round colour.

 

Read about other Skimmia species and Skimmia for buds and berries.