About
Caryopteris incana 'Blue Cascade' is a compact, deciduous shrub reaching heights and widths of up to 1.5 meters. It features a soft, greyish, felt-like texture and arching branches. The leaves are ovate, aromatic, and can grow up to 7.5 centimeters long, displaying coarse serrations along their edges. From midsummer through early autumn, this plant produces clusters of violet-blue flowers that emerge from the upper leaf axils.
About the genus
Caryopteris includes both deciduous shrubs and herbaceous perennials, characterized by their fragrant, uncomplicated leaves. These plants produce small blue or white flowers that appear in dense clusters in the axils during late summer and autumn.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H5
Plant details
- Plant type
- Shrubs
- Habit
- Pendulous weeping, Bushy
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 1-1.5 metres
- Spread
- 1-1.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 5-10 years
- Suggested uses
- Gravel garden, City and courtyard gardens, Mediterranean climate plants
- Fragrance
- Foliage
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in moderately fertile, light, well-drained soil in full sun. Best positioned near a warm, sunny wall
- Pruning
- Pruning group 6
- Propagation
- Root softwood cuttings from spring to midsummer, semi-ripe cuttings from mid to late summer or hardwood cuttings from late autumn to midwinter
- Pest resistance
- Capsid bug may cause leaf distortion
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus