Plumbago Snow Cape

Plumbago snow cape snow cape is a pure white flowering plumbago bred to maintain vibrant colour through our hot summer months. Plumbago auriculata is an extraordinarily adaptable plant.

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Plumbago snow cape

Foliage semi evergreen flowering may to november. Name plumbago capensis family plumbaginaceae type shrub. Genus plumbago can be annuals perennials or scrambling evergreen shrubs with simple leaves and short terminal racemes of salver shaped flowers with 5 spreading lobes.

Can be used as a hedge or shrub or espaliered against a wall and will even climb through other plants so it makes the perfect gap filler. Height 3 to 6 feet 1 to 2 meters exposure full sun soil ordinary. It can be grown as a hedge or as a loose shrub or espaliered against a wall.

The plumbago plumbago auriculata also known as skyflower leadwort and cape plumbago produces phloxlike clusters of star shaped flowers in shades of blue and white. Snow cape is a long flowering hardy shrub suited to australia s tough conditions. Auriculata is an evergreen shrub to 4m or more with support with slender scandent stems bearing light green spoon shaped.

Plumbago is a superb vine noted both for its flowers and for its foliage. White cape is a long flowering hardy shrub suited to australia s tough conditions. Plumbago auriculata snow cape large phlox like clusters of flowers are produced in abundance from late spring to autumn.

Other common names cape leadwort. A fast growing shrub or climber plumbago snow cape plumbago auriculata features trusses of glittering white flowers from spring through till late autumn. Plumbago grows in poor soil or on an exposed sunny bank it is drought tolerant enjoys a sunny location and is not particular about soils it s a tough plant indeed.

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