Armeria caespitosa
£3.50
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Description
Compact mound forming with pink flowers.
This has tight short foliage that keeps under 5cm. The mound is almost covered completely in spring with pink flowers which slowly fade to leave seed heads. Best grown in alpine rock garden, crevice garden, containers or an alpine house.
Flowering: Spring
Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Height: 5cm
Spread: 30cm
Further information:
Armeria are pretty self sufficient. Trim back any old flower stems down to the base. Do not trim back the leaves.
Common Name: Juniper-Leaved Thrift
Life Cycle: perennial
Family: Plumbaginaceae
Foliage: linear
Basic Colour: ( pink )
Flower Colour: pink
Natural Flowering: April – July
Winter Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Height with Flowers: 5cm
Soil Requirements: average / moist / dry / well-drained / sandy
Soil ph: acidic / alkaline / neutral
Location: container / cottage garden / border / rock garden / Mediterranean / crevice garden / meadow
Usage: ornamental / bee food plant / attracts butterflies / cut flower
Pruning: cut back as and when required
Tolerates: drought tolerant / salt tolerant
Origin: Central Spain
Additional information
| Weight | 100 g |
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| Planting area | Alpine House, Fairy Garden, Pots & Troughs, Rock & Scree Garden |
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Helena (verified owner) –
Efficient delivery. Excellently packaged.
Julie H. (verified owner) –
Lovely colour, very good quality, just what I wanted
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Julie H. (verified owner) –
good colour and quality
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Anonymous (verified owner) –
all good
Bernadette Hamlet (verified owner) –
Am happy with this plant
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Diane Heggie (verified owner) –
Good size plant arrived well packed and in excellent condition. Very pleased
Jill Nicolson (verified owner) –
Missed the flowers but pleased with progress to a lovely mound
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John R. (verified owner) –
Very good condition and well packed
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George Smith (verified owner) –
12 plants 12 twelve beauties a very happy man !
Douglas P. (verified owner) –
Nice plants
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Fantastic
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Paul Doleman (verified owner) –
Perfect in every way, thank you.
Angela Parkes (verified owner) –
Good quality plants
Stephen O’Kelly (verified owner) –
All the plants I ordered were very carefully packaged and labelled and looked very healthy. I’m very excited about them settling into their new home.
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Steve Sinnott (verified owner) –
I have similar plants dotted around in clefts or on the edge of my Koi pond they always thrive.
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Excellent
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Planted and doing well
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