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Variegated Winter Daphne | Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'
Flowers and fragrance in January!
Grown by John
South Downs National Park
The highlights
- Pale pink flowers open from purpleish buds and radiate a sweet scent
- Winter flowering from January to March
- Plant in pots, borders or use as fragrant path edging
- A low maintenance evergreen perennial
Description
- A compact, winter flowering evergreen shrub with shiny dark green leaves edged in golden yellow
- Clusters of sweetly scented pink flowers with white centres emerge from purple-pink buds and bloom from January to March
- The flowers are followed by round red fruits
- Perfect in pots or as an accent plant in borders - we love it planted by the front door or garden paths, where the wonderful fragrance can be fully appreciated
- Easy to grow hardy perennial that will thrive in full sun or partial shade. Do not eat
- A low maintenance plant which rarely has any pest or disease issues and requires only minimal pruning
- Grows to 1-1.5m
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How To Grow
Excellent pest and disease resistance
Generally pest and disease free, can be affected by aphids or slugs
Water often in summer
During hot and prolonged dry periods, as well as the plant's first year, it is important to ensure that the ground is kept consistently moist. This can require watering several times a week or perhaps even daily during very hot spells. Once the plant has established itself it will become more drought tolerant but still the ground should not be allowed to dry up too much for too long.
Full sun to partial shade
Ideally, plant somewhere the plant will receive 6 hours of direct sunlight every day. Daphne will also do well in partial shade.
Fertile, well-drained soil
Mix in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost into the soil before planting and more every spring. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and easily becomes waterlogged, add some perlite into the soil to improve drainage.
Feeding not required
This is a low maintenance plant which gets all the nutrients it needs from the soil.
Planting Calendar
- Best time to plant
- Harvest
- Flower
South Downs National Park
Meet John
110 years' expertise free with every plant
Straight from the capable hands of our shrub specialist John to your garden, you can be sure that each bush, hedge and plant is grown to last. Nurtured in the fields of the South Downs and professionally pruned for the best shape, these hardy feature plants will be adding structure, colour and variety to your garden for many years to come.
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Excellent delivery and service
Well, the delivery was spot on, the tree looks healthy enough for a sleeping plant, although at the moment most of the branches are on one side of the trunk which in itself is bent banana-style. quite wonky. One can only hope that it grows into a fruitful plant with some character?
30 January
Nice sized tree in good condition
Time will tell on the quality of the product (bare-root apple trees), but the stems that arrived seemed in great condition and very well packaged so no damage in transit. Looking forward to Spring!
Ange
Appears v healthy
Very happy with purchase
Ms Arlene Bocking
Lovely tree
So happy with my purchase of my Braeburn Hillwell apple tree from Roots Plants. It arrived promptly, well packaged and in a good, healthy condition. I soaked it for an hour before planting and it's doing well. Looking forward to our home grown apples, in time.
Ms Arlene Bocking
It has picked up now and is growing well
It arrived in a heat wave and looked a little bit sorry for itself when planted out but it has picked up now and is growing well.
David Osborne
Good service all round
Arrived on time as the seller said it would and the courier gave me a time slot to track my parcel. It came well packaged and was of good quality for this time of year. It looks a good and healthy tree and will be planted up in a few weeks after the ground has been prepared. I’m pleased with my purchase.
Helen