- Eventual Height: 3m
- Eventual Spread: 3m
Chionanthus retusus
Chinese fringe tree
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size: 3 litre pot
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available to order from summer 2012
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- Position: full sun
- Soil: any fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower colour: white
- Hardiness: fully hardy
This wonderful plant will form a vase-shaped, multi-stemmed shrub, or by removing some of the lower branches while it is still young, you can train it to look more tree-like, with a short main stem. However you decide to grow it, you will be rewarded with glossy green leaves, and in summer, upright clusters of spidery, white flowers, which have a good scent. Throughout the winter when the stems are bare, the deeply furrowed and peeling bark adds further interest. A magnificent and rarely seen specimen.
- Garden care: Requires minimal pruning. Remove any broken, diseased or crossing branches in late autumn or winter. When planting incorporate lots of well-rotted garden compost in the planting hole and stake firmly.
- Eventual Height: 3m
- Eventual Spread: 3m
Chionanthus retusus - Chinese fringe tree
A cracking shrub or small tree
