Cotton Lavender Santolina Chamaecyparissus Hedging
You are here:
Home » Hedging » Cotton Lavender Hedging » Cotton Lavender Santolina Chamaecyparissus Hedging
Santolina chamaecyparissus (Cotton Lavender)
This is the most popular variety with small and strongly aromatic grey green leaves that are woolly and toothed, they are held on white felted branches. eason, trim after flowering in late summer, hedges should be cut back hard to the framework of branches.
If you'd like more information about Cotton Lavender Santolina Chamaecyparissus Hedging just scroll to the bottom of the page.
All Hedging
Use this View All tab to see our complete range of plants for this species. Or you can click on the other tabs to filter by root type and narrow your search.
Potted Hedging
We deliver these plants to you in the pots they are grown in, because there is no root disturbance they can delivered and planted all year round with excellent results.
This small evergreen woody shrub grows naturally into a neat bun shape, from mid summer onwards the plant is covered in small, perfectly formed button shaped flowers of bright yellow held on wiry stems.
This is a useful shrub for a dry sunny position either among other sun ,loving shrubs in beds and borders, as alarger swathe of ground cover or as an effective low informal flowering hedge. (This little shrub may also be kept more formal with regular trimming to accentiate the fresh grey foliage but sacrificing the flowers).
Plant Santolina in free draining soil in full sun, they rarely suffer from pests and diseases and are very drought tolerant. Little maintenance is required other than a trim to tidy them up and encourage new growth for next year, best carried out in late summer when the flowers have finished.
How to grow Santolina chamaecyparissus
Position: Full sun.
Foliage: Evergreen, leaves are retained all year.
Soil and site: Any well drained soil.
Flowering time: July onwards.
Growth rate: moderate
Ultimate height and spread: 50cm high x 100cm wide.
Hardiness: Fully hardy.
Aftercare: Water regularly after planting and for the first season, trim after flowering in late summer, hedges should be cut back hard to the framework of branches.