Pink Lace Featherflower*
Verticordia plumosa 'Pink Lace'
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Height: 3 feet
Spread: 24 inches
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 8
Description:
An evergreen dwarf rounded shurb with attractive soft bluish-green needle-like foliage; pretty pink flowers that are delicately fringed appear in tight clusters in spring; a light honey fragrance
Ornamental Features
Pink Lace Featherflower features showy clusters of lightly-scented pink daisy flowers at the ends of the branches from mid spring to mid summer. It has bluish-green evergreen foliage. The needles remain bluish-green throughout the winter.
Landscape Attributes
Pink Lace Featherflower is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Pink Lace Featherflower is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Pink Lace Featherflower will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. It has a low canopy. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions, but will not tolerate any standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
* This is a "special order" plant - contact store for details
