About
'Aubrieta 'Red Cascade' is a vigorous, mat-forming perennial that can also be cultivated as an annual. It produces single flowers in a deep magenta-red hue during the spring season.
About the genus
Aubrieta are low-growing, evergreen perennials characterized by their small foliage and compact clusters of four-petaled blooms that appear in pink and purple hues during the spring season.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained, Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Exposed, Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H6
Plant details
- Plant type
- Bedding, Herbaceous Perennial, Annual Biennial
- Habit
- Trailing
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- Up to 10 cm
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- Gravel garden, Patio and container plants, City and courtyard gardens, Cottage and informal garden, Rock garden
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Best grown in well-drained soil in full sun, an ideal plant for dry areas such as chalky slopes and on walls, but it can tolerate partial shade. Being hardy, it is a useful container plant for spring colour This plant was part of the RHS Aubrieta, Arabis and Aurinia trial 2024-2026
- Pruning
- Cut back after flowering
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed, softwood cuttings or semi-hardwood cuttings
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to aphids and flea beetles
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to white blister