Abelia
Common Names: Glossy abelia
Origin: Eastern Asia, Mexico
- Masses of bell-shaped white flowers
- Colourful foliage
- Perfect for pots & containers
Abelia are a time-honoured cottage shrub, loved for its beautiful show of bell-shaped flowers, small, glossy green foliage, and dense habit. There are some new varieties with foliage of a different colour, variegated or produce a red leaf that gets deeper as the temperature gets cooler. They make ideal potted or container plants, low to medium hedges or as a flowery garden filler.
Plant Type: Shrub
Uses: Feature, Hedging
Garden Types: Cottage, Pots & Containers
Care
Sun Requirements: Prefers a full sun or part shade position
Water Requirements: Water regularly until established. Once established they are drought-hardy.
Soil Requirements: Prefers moist, well drained loamy soil. Will tolerate sand and clay soils
Fertilizing: Slow Release general-purpose fertilizer in spring and summer. Not required once established unless soil lacks nutrients
Pruning: Late winter to early spring. It can also be trimmed during cooler periods in summer to keep its form
Tolerances: Drought, sun and light frost. Doesn’t tolerate hard freezes.
Diseases: Disease and pest resistant
Key Features
Flower: Bell shaped, white with a pink tinge and lightly fragrant
Foliage: Dark to light green with red tinge in the autumn. Some varieties are variegated, glossy or have a mixed colour of yellows, oranges, reds, purples and greens.
Edible: The Chinese variety, Abelia chinensis, has edible flowers
Toxicity: No known toxicity
Attracts: Bees
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