Caryopteris x clandonensis Heavenly Blue

€5,90

Caryopteris x clandonensis Heavenly Blue

Name: Caryopteris clandonensis "Heavenly Blue"
Brand: Caryopteris
SKU: pda455
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

€5,90

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Caryopteris × clandonensis 'Heavenly Blue' is a more vigorous variety, known for its particularly intense violet-blue summer flowering, borne in dense, fairly large, airy-looking clusters.

The foliage is deciduous, dark green with a greyish tint on the upper surface and greyer beneath, releasing a turpentine-like fragrance when crushed.

The flowers are actually composed of countless small flowers displaying the most intense blue seen among caryopteris varieties - it is really striking. And on top of that, the flowers are particularly attractive to bees and other pollinators, and the shrub is often visited by numerous colorful butterflies.

It is a plant for full sun and well-drained, even dry, soils, and proves to be quite hardy under these conditions. It is ideal for planting in a very sunny border, a large rock garden, or even a small hedge.

Flowering	August, September, October
Flower Color	Blue
Exposure	Full Sun
Frost Tolerance	-15°C
Size	80cm H x 80cm W
Soil	All soils - cool and dry
Origin	China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia

pda455

€5,90

In stock

🪴9x9 cm

🚂 Ships across EU
🌱 Grown in our nursery

☀️ Sun Loving
💦 Drought Tolerant
🌸 Long Flowering Season

Caryopteris × clandonensis 'Heavenly Blue' is one of the hybrids obtained by crossing Caryopteris incana, an Asian shrub commonly known as "Bluebeard," with Caryopteris mongolica, a hardier species native to the colder regions of Mongolia and northern China. All belong to the verbena family (Verbenaceae).

The deciduous foliage consists of small, slender, oval leaves with irregularly toothed edges, arranged oppositely on upright stems. The upper surface is a rather dark grey-green, while the underside is downy and greyer. When crushed, the leaves release a powerful resinous fragrance.

The accidental cross that produced it occurred in the garden of Arthur Simmonds at Clandon, near Guildford, Surrey.

In 1930, wishing to propagate C. mongholica, he gathered seeds from a plant that was growing near C. mastacanthus. When the seedlings eventually flowered in their second year, hybrids appeared. The final selection, however, was made of a self-sown volunteer that appeared under C. mastacanthus, and eventually smothered it.

It began winning Royal Horticultural Society medals in 1933.
This small, deciduous, aromatic shrub has grey-green leaves and produces masses of blue flowers in late summer - this is the variety that we have here today!