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What Colour is hebe?
The flowers of the Hebe plant can be in a range of colours of white to purple, the foliage can also be variegated in green to purple.
How big does hebe get?
Hebes are bushy evergreen shrubs with purple, pink or white flowers in summer, and sometimes in spring or autumn. The leaves can be ornamental too, often tinged with pink or variegated. Plants range from 30cm (1ft) up to 1.2m (4ft) tall.
How do you look after hebes?
Hebe likes a sunny spot in the garden and can tolerate full sun (but will also happily thrive in partial shade) Ensure water can always drain away – the Hebe doesn’t like sitting in puddles of water. When your Hebe is flowering (Summer-Autumn), give it a water with plant food in once a fortnight.
What are the hardiest hebes?
Hebes with white flowers, like H. albicans and H. recurva, tend to be hardier than those with purple blooms. Perhaps because their evergreen foliage looks fresh so much of the year, hebes are named after the Greek goddess of youth and immortality.
Can you cut back hebes?
Pruning hebes Hebes require very little care. Avoid feeding them as this can make them grow too quickly and develop floppy leaves. Cut back back dead flowers and up to a third of foliage in late summer, after flowering, to encourage strong new growth and a good bushy shape.
Do hebes need full sun?
Growing position – hebes need full sun, in free-draining soil. As well as growing in borders and containers, they can also make informal low hedges. They cope well in coastal locations too. Most are hardy, but prefer a warm, sunny spot.
Where is the best place to plant hebe?
Most hebes thrive in moist but well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade, ideally in a sheltered spot protected from winds. They don’t need rich soils and will tolerate drought. Deadhead spent blooms to improve the look of your hebe and keep it flowering for longer.
Do hebes flower every year?
If hebes are pruned in the Spring you remove the growth on which the hebes display their flowers. Hebes do not flower unless they are in full sun and well draining soil. Hebes often do not flower in the year after planting as the energy is redirected from flowering to growing and establishing roots.
Which is the best hebe?
Hebe ‘Midsummer Beauty’ A large hebe with an upright habit and elegant, narrow, gren leaves. Spikes of pale-violet flowers, which can be an impressive 30cm long, fade to white.
Do hebes like sun or shade?
full sun
Growing position – hebes need full sun, in free-draining soil. As well as growing in borders and containers, they can also make informal low hedges. They cope well in coastal locations too. Most are hardy, but prefer a warm, sunny spot.
Do hebes like lots of water?
They do not grow well in water-logged ground and prefer well-drained soils. When grown in open ground they only require watering in very dry conditions. When grown in containers they will need more frequent watering from May to September.