How does the Exochorda bride grow?
For best results, grow Exochorda x macrantha ‘The Bride’ in full sun in moist, well-drained soil. It’s important that it is pruned right after flowering, to ensure a good show of flowers the following year. Do this by cutting back each flowering stem by half their length, after blooming has ended.
Is Exochorda the bride Evergreen?
This is an excellent, clump-forming evergreen perennial which produces masses of stunning, pale violet-blue, bell-shaped flowers in open clusters from July…
How do you look after Exochorda?
Ensure that you have well-drained soil, rich and with lots of humus for a beautiful blooming. Exochorda loves very sunny spots but prefers part shade in regions where summers are hot and dry. Avoid drafty and windy spots to protect the blooming in spring. Proper mulch in summer will help it cope with drought.
Is Exochorda the bride fast growing?
Exochorda ‘The Bride’ also known as Pear Bush is a fast growing medium-sized, deciduous shrub with a trailing habit.
Can you grow Exochorda in pots?
The Exochorda Shrub is an arching shrub with pendant branches producing a mass of showy white flowers amid delicate green leaves in early summer. It can be kept in a pot or planted out in the garden and likes sun and fertile well drained soil.
How tall does Exochorda the bride grow?
2m
Height: 2m (6′). Spread: 3m (10′). Grow Exochorda in any moist, well drained fertile soil in sun or dappled shade. Exochorda tolerates most soils except for shallow, chalky conditions.
Should I prune Exochorda?
Exochorda x macrantha is a beautiful spring-flowering shrub that produces a profusion of white blooms. The best way to keep the display coming each year is to cut back the flowering stems to half their length, once they’ve finished blooming.
Will Exochorda grow in shade?
Exochorda grow best in fertile but well drained soil in full sun or shade.
When can I move Exochorda?
My advice is: don’t procrastinate another year. Deciduous shrubs are ideally moved in the dormant season from autumn through the winter (roughly October to March) when the ground is soft and damp, but not frozen.
Do bees like Exochorda?
A lovely spring flowering shrub. Arching branches are covered with pearl-like buds that open to pure white flowers in late spring through to early summer. Bee friendly flowers.
How do you take care of Exochorda the bride?
For best results, grow Exochorda x macrantha ‘The Bride’ in full sun in moist, well-drained soil. It’s important that it is pruned right after flowering, to ensure a good show of flowers the following year.
Is Exochorda X macrantha the bride a good plant?
Exochorda x macrantha ‘The Bride’ has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM). A table displaying which months are best to sow, plant and harvest. Exochorda ‘The Bride’ has no particular known value to wildlife in the UK. Is Exochorda ‘The Bride’ poisonous?
Can you grow Exochorda cuttings?
You can multiply an exochorda plant through sowing in fall or in spring, or through layering in spring and summer. As for cuttings, although some gardeners have succeeded, it’s known to be quite difficult and results are much less guaranteed than for layering.
