Gardeners are realising how useful dwarf shrubs can be - they look after themselves and remain attractive for years. They’re good for low stress gardens. Eriostemon ‘Bournda Beauty’ is such a shrub, growing dense and compact to a height of about 75 centimetres. It’s ideal for a sunny border in good, well drained soil. The strongly scented foliage is attractive year round, and from autumn to spring the pale red flower buds are quite a feature, finally bursting into star shaped white flowers in early spring.
A free-flowering evergreen shrub with a compact and tidy habit built in. Early in spring tiny buds form, colouring to red prior to opening to a myriad of white star-shaped flowers. An excellent border choice that lends itself to floral use - flowers last well in a vase and crushed foliage has a distinctive fresh fragrance.
Feature:
Myriads of starry white flowers as spring warms.
Uses: Best in a patio tub or borders where its springtime brilliance can be enjoyed.
Position: Full sun, a warm open position and freely-drained soils. Will need shelter from all but light frost in colder parts of Zone 9.
Care: Clip to shape after flowering. Prefers poor and slightly acidic soils; go easy on fertiliser and don't use lime. A yellow foliage hue indicates trace element deficiency - consult your garden centre.
Height
x Width:
75 x 100 centimetres.