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Rostrinucula dependens - 2012

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Rostrinucula dependens - 2012 (Rostrinucula dependens)

This small shrub always flowers late in the season. It's only just beaten the frosts this year



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Looks healthy. It is not very common around here.

30 Oct, 2012

 

Klahanie - it's not very common in the UK either. but then I like growing unusual things

30 Oct, 2012

 

A new one to me......love the way the flowers grow.

30 Oct, 2012

 

Reminds me a Buddleia. Flower is more exotic and weeping?. I like the plant .

30 Oct, 2012

 

Klahanie - yes, it is like a miniature buddleia flower. And you treat the bush just the same, cutting it back hard in spring. That keeps it to around three feet; unpruned it would probably get to about five feet.

DD - I bought it from Larch Cottage Nursery in Cumbria (good for mail order)

31 Oct, 2012

 

Thanks for the info Andrewr, I will look around here and see if anyone grows it. None of my friends have it.

31 Oct, 2012

 

Very pretty with dainty flowers

1 Nov, 2012

 

Thanks Andrew, do you use Bob Brown much Cotswold GF?

3 Nov, 2012

 

DD - yes, I have used him as well

3 Nov, 2012

 

Very pretty flower, is it on your garden?

4 Nov, 2012

 

Aleyna - yes, I've been growing this for three years now

4 Nov, 2012

 

Does it disappear during the winter, or stay there with no leaves or flowers?

9 Nov, 2012

 

It's a shrub so it stays there with no leaves or flowers. In mid to late spring, when new shoots are showing, I cut it back hard (like a buddleia)

9 Nov, 2012

 

Thanks for replying Andrew, I was thinking that when you guys say "cut hard" it mean cutting the plant that are in your garden. I'm wondering if this applies to the ones planted on pots.
I've followed the instructions to prune the whisteria and it is coming back very slowly.

11 Nov, 2012



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