Daphne Bholua Jacqueline Postill

It makes an ideal shrub for the small garden because it is slow growing and flowers during the late winter when most other. Daphne bholua jacqueline postill is a slow growing cultivar with an upright habit making it well suited to small gardens and narrow borders.

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Daphne bholua jacqueline postill

Bholua jacqueline postill this was developed from seed of the ghurka variety. Daphne bholua jacqueline postill produces clusters of pretty intensely fragrant flowers which are pink on the outside and white within. Theis a species from nepal and jacqueline postill is a seedling from the variety d.

Genus daphne can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs with small usually very fragrant tubular 4 lobed flowers often followed by colourful berries details jacqueline postill is a more or less evergreen medium sized shrub of erect habit with leathery oblanceolate leaves. Bholua hybrid crossing jacqueline postill and the much hardier d. Peter smithers deserves mention for being the darkest flowered of all forms in cultivation.

British nurseryman robin white raised the only known d. Daphne bholua alba offers pure white intensely fragrant flowers in mid february. Spring herald has a.

This hardy winter flowering shrub requires patience to be seen at maturity but is well worth the wait. The flowers of this daphne are quite large with a strong pink colour. It has similar flowers to its parent with 12 15 flowers per inflorescence but is more evergreen and is probably the hardiest evergreen variety in cultivation for which reason it is the most widely available and most popular cultivar.

A lovely spring flowering species daphne bholua jacqueline postill has lovely fragrant pink flowers in spring. Originating in the eastern himalayas daphne bholua forms an upright growing evergreen shrub with leathery mid green oval leaves.

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