About
This is a compact evergreen shrub that grows to approximately 1.2 meters. It features slender, willow-like leaves in a mid-green hue. From mid-summer through autumn, it produces elongated, branched spikes adorned with small, tubular white flowers.
About the genus
Veronica encompasses annuals, perennials, and sub-shrubs characterized by opposite leaves and small flowers that typically appear in terminal or axillary racemes or spikes.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained, Well-drained
- Aspect
- East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H4
Plant details
- Plant type
- Shrubs
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- 1-1.5 metres
- Spread
- 1-1.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 5-10 years
- Suggested uses
- City and courtyard gardens, Cottage and informal garden, Coastal, Wildlife gardens
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in poor to moderately fertile, neutral to slightly alkaline soil in sun or partial shade with protection from cold, drying winds
- Pruning
- Pruning group 9
- Propagation
- Root semi-hardwood cuttings in late summer or autumn with bottom heat
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to aphids
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to downy mildews, fungal leaf spot, fungal rot, Phytophthora and sometimes honey fungus