| Content | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Hakea salicifolia syn H. saligna
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| height x width |
4-6m x 2-3m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 1m-1.5m
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| features |
Fast growing bushy small tree with red new growth, cream spidery flowers clustered around stems in summer followed by woody fruit
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well drained soil, tolerant of clay soils and dry conditions
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| landscape use |
Windbreaks, fire-retarding hedges, shade tree, amongst mixed shrubs
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