19+ Ceanothus Varieties

Ray hartman ceanothus ray hartman is a hybrid of ceanothus arboreus and ceanothus griseus that grows 12 to 18 feet high and 15 to 20 feet wide. All ceanothus are nitrogen fixing plants improve soils where they are grown.

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Ceanothus varieties

A garden favourite ceanothus are known and grown for their impressive flowering display whether growing a free standing or a wall trained shrub a deciduous or an evergreen here s all you need to know to get the best from your plant. Deciduous shrub with green leaves and striking purplish stems. Not as showy as some other varieties perhaps but one that is more adaptable as it is native to areas both east and west of the cascades.

The larger ceanothus varieties are small trees. Abundant dark sapphire blue flowers cloak the plant in spring. In the wild they re often the first plants to grow after a fire and they fill in quickly but are often short lived 5 20 years.

They are mostly green with some varieties having gold or white variegation and others tinged purple. Blue jeans has small holly like leaves and blueish purple flowers. The exception to the spring to summer flowering rule for ceanothus is the sport autumnal blue that flowers in summer.

Varies by species cultivar. Ceanothus blue jeans holly leaf mountain lilac. Redstem ceanothus oregon tea tree fragrant white flowers in late spring early summer.

How to grow ceanothus. Ceanothus dark star small leaf mountain lilac. The flowering period for most ceanothus tends to be from the start of march till june with cultivars such as blue jeans leading the vanguard where the likes of skylark will be in flower in june.

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