| Description | Picea pungens
Blue Diamond is a colourful, dense Conifer with intense silver-blue needles. Blue Diamond is a popular evergreen tree used in landscapes as a feature plant or in mass plantings, valued for its attractive form and foliage colour. Use well-drained, humus-rich soil and plant in full sun.
| Thuja occidentalis
Smaragd Conifers have lush soft green foliage and grow into a conical shape not exceeding 1.2m in width and 3m in height. Plant them in large pots or plant them as an obelisk style feature, or along a fence as a low maintenance screen. | Gaura lindheimeri "Butterfly Bush"
Butterfly Bush is a bushy, hardy perennial shrub with long graceful stems that bloom with pale pink flowers in spring-summer. These stems grow up to 1m long, but can be clipped back shorter, and sway gracefully in the breeze. The name of a popular variety, Whirling Butterflies, perfectly describes the way the plant resembles a cloud of butterflies when swaying in the breeze.
6" pot size. |
Dragons Breath has unique green-red foliage and blazing-red, long-lasting flowers. It is popular due to its long shelf life and adaptability. Great in containers, beds and large landscapes. Dragon’s Breath shows even more red foliage and flowers under adverse garden conditions like heat, humidity and infrequent watering. |
| Content | | Why buy a Smaragd Conifer?
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A Smaragd Conifer is very useful as a self-shaping, low maintenance topiary cone - it keeps its cone shape with minimal to no trimming.
The Smaragd Conifer easily grows in average, medium and well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. It tolerates wide range of soils. This plant also likes humid weather with regular rains. Appreciates good root space. Prune in early spring before onset of new growth.
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| Additional information | | |
| botanical name |
Gaura lindheimeri
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| height x width |
1.2m x 1m
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| features |
Masses of sprays of beautiful white flowers opening from pink buds along the stems are borne from spring to autumn
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| conditions |
Full sun in light well-drained soil, cut back hard after flowering
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| landscape use |
Background planting, flower borders, color, general garden planting,
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