Winter Daphne Hedge

The main difference is the leaf color. The scent is so thick that on warmer days it can envelop a neighborhood.

Seattle Garden Ideas April 2011

Winter daphne hedge

The best time to do any cutting is after the plant flowers so you avoid cutting off the buds. Daphne odora aureo marginata beautiful rosy pink flower buds that open to white sweetly fragrant flowers in winter and early spring. This variety has the most powerful fragrance.

Daphne is a shrub and even one can fill an entire patio or enclosed porch with its strong distinctive aroma. It grows to about four feet tall with narrow glossy leaves. Daphne odora commonly called winter daphne because of its late winter flowers is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that is native to china and japan it typically grows to 3 4 tall and to 2 4 wide.

Daphne plant pruning is generally to remove broken or errant branches. Very easy to grow daphne are wonderful evergreen bushes to add sensory appeal around shady patio gardens decks porches and other outdoor living spaces. It features intensely fragrant reddish purple flowers with pale pink to white insides in terminal inflorescences.

The right care for winter daphne encourages the fragrant blooms as does growing winter daphne in the right spot. Trimming the shrub is not part of annual plant care for daphne. I am thinking of doing a daphne hedge on the southern side of a fence running east west in brisbane meaning it will get plenty of sun in summer but only a couple of hours of morning sun in winter.

Attractive yellow margined variegated foliage. Botanically called daphne odora pink buds emerge in february to march becoming clusters of fragrant tubular blooms. Locate against a wall or near a patio or deck where its fragrance can be appreciated.

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