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