About
The Roseum Group is a deciduous shrub characterized by its open habit. It features small, oval-shaped leaves and produces pale pink, four-petaled flowers that appear in racemes within the leaf axils during late winter and early spring.
About the genus
Abeliophyllum consists of loose, deciduous shrubs characterized by opposing ovate leaves. In late winter or early spring, they produce fragrant flowers with four elongated lobes, which emerge from the axils and develop on the bare stems.
Plant details
- Height
- 1-1.5 metres
- Spread
- 1-1.5 metres
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. Ideal for wall-training on a warm wall; early flowers may be damaged by late frosts
- Pruning
- Pruning group 5 or pruning group 13 if wall-trained
- Propagation
- Root softwood or semi-ripe cuttings in spring and early summer, or propagate by layering in early spring
- Pest resistance
- Generally pest-free
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus in gardens where it is present but insufficient data to determine degree of susceptibility