About
This compact variety features bushy growth with variegated foliage, displaying green leaves edged in gold. In late summer and autumn, it produces pale blue flowers.
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
- Moist but well-drained, Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H4
Plant details
- Plant type
- Shrubs
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 0.5-1 metres
- Spread
- 0.5-1 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- Cottage and informal garden, Gravel garden, City and courtyard gardens, Coastal, Wildlife gardens
- Fragrance
- Foliage
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in a sheltered, sunny position with a light well-drained soil
- Pruning
- Pruning group 6
- Propagation
- Propagate by softwood cuttings
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to capsid bugs and mealybugs
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus