About
Abutilon 'Lemon Queen' is a sizable, semi-evergreen shrub characterized by its soft, maple-shaped foliage. Throughout the summer and autumn months, it produces large, bell-shaped flowers that are a striking lemon-yellow color.
About the genus
Abutilon encompasses a variety of growth forms, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, trees, perennials, and annuals. The foliage can be either simple or palmately lobed, and the flowers are typically bell-shaped or bowl-shaped, frequently featuring prominent stamens.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H3
Plant details
- Plant type
- Conservatory Greenhouse, Shrubs
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Semi evergreen
- Height
- 1.5-2.5 metres
- Spread
- 1.5-2.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 5-10 years
- Suggested uses
- Cottage and informal garden, City and courtyard gardens, Patio and container plants
Care notes
- Cultivation
- In mild areas grow outdoors in sunny, sheltered border otherwise grow under glass in peat-free, loam-based compost in full light
- Pruning
- Pruning group 1, pruning group 6 or pruning group 9
- Propagation
- Propagate by softwood cuttings
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to glasshouse whitefly, glasshouse red spider mite, mealybugs and scale insects
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus (rarely) or a virus