Barleria Purple - Philippine violet

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$4.60

This tough pretty little shrub is worth a try in dry unpromising spots and brand new gardens, as it's a good coloniser of poor soils. If you get frost, grow it as a houseplant to enjoy the trumpet-shaped flowers in gentle violet-mauve.

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Description

Barleria cristata Purple - Philippine violet

APPEARANCE: Tough attractive shrub or herbaceous perennial, with small violet-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and upright branching stems of soft green leaves. Flowers during spring/summer.
ORIGIN : From the Indian sub-continent, Burma, and Nepal
USE FOR : Cottage gardens, fast flowers, mixed borders, potted colour
CLIMATE : Frost free locations.
PLANTING: Full sun/part shade. It is a coloniser plant, growing readily on dry disturbed soils and roadsides
CARE: Responds well to light pruning which shapes it and improves bushiness. Water regularly during the first 8-12 weeks until the plant is established.
HEIGHT Up to 1m around
YOUR PLANTS : These are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide.
You can see an example in the image gallery.
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