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Description
is calluna vulgaris an indoor plant A Long-Lasting Lilac-Pink for Fall | 'Hilda' Heather | Calluna vulgaris 'Hilda'The 'Hilda' Heather brings a touch of bright, long lasting colour to autumn scenes with its unique foliage and tireless bloom. A member of the award winning Garden Girls series, it adorns itself with brilliant lilac pink flower buds that refuse to open. This distinctive trait gives them exceptional resistance to bad weather and a colour that persists from the end of summer until the first snows. Its magnificent silvery grey foliage offers a superb
The 'Hilda' Heather brings a touch of bright, long-lasting colour to autumn scenes with its unique foliage and tireless bloom. A member of the award-winning Garden Girls® series, it adorns itself with brilliant lilac-pink flower buds that refuse to open. This distinctive trait gives them exceptional resistance to bad weather and a colour that persists from the end of summer until the first snows. Its magnificent silvery-grey foliage offers a superb contrast, adding another dimension of colour and texture to its beauty.
Characteristics
- Foliage: Fine, evergreen foliage in a beautiful silvery-grey shade, which offers a striking contrast with the pink flowers and remains decorative all year.
- Flowering: As a "bud-bloomer," its long spikes are covered in bright lilac-pink buds that remain closed. This ensures a spectacular and very long-lasting colour display from August to November.
- Light: Requires full sun to maintain its silvery foliage colour and ensure dense flowering.
- Habit: Adopts an upright, compact, and bushy habit, forming a very neat little plant cushion.
- Growth: Slow-growing, it reaches a mature size of 30 to 50 cm (12-20 in) in height and width.
- Soil: Essential: requires acidic (pH 4.5-5.5), poor, sandy, and above all, perfectly drained soil. It absolutely cannot tolerate heavy, clay, or alkaline soils.
- Temperature: Hardy in Zone 5. Its survival in the ground in many parts of Canada is highly dependent on adequate winter protection, such as a consistent snow cover or a mulch of conifer boughs.
- Resistance: Very resistant to White-tailed deer. The closed flower buds stand up admirably to wind and rain.
Use
- Types of Use: Perfect in fall containers where its silvery foliage and pink flowers work wonders. Ideal in window boxes, rock gardens, acidic borders, or in groups. Often used as a seasonal annual for its prolonged fall colour.
- Decorative Advantages: Provides a delicate texture and a refined colour combination (pink and silver) at a season when the garden is winding down. It pairs beautifully with asters, grasses, and other fall stars.
Care
- Watering: Water regularly to maintain consistent moisture, but without ever waterlogging the soil. Good drainage is crucial.
- Fertilization: Requires very little fertilization. If necessary, use a low-dose fertilizer for acid-loving plants in the spring.
- Pruning: Prune lightly in early spring, just below the previous year's flower spikes, to maintain a compact shape. Avoid cutting into old wood.
- Planting: Incorporate soil for acid-loving plants (heather/rhododendron soil) or peat moss when planting to ensure an adequate pH.
- Winter Protection: For in-ground planting, protect the shrub from drying winter winds with a mulch of conifer boughs. A good snow cover is its best insulator.
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