coleonema pulchellum // Image - Wikimedia / Forest & Kim Starr
Shrubs of the genus coleonema They are ideal for growing in pots or pots on patios and terraces. They are very good to maintain, since they resist pruning and drought, and also produce such a quantity of flowers that it is inevitable to smile when you see them.
If we take everything into account, what care do we have to give them so that they are healthy for a long time?
Origin and characteristics
Coleonema pulchrum 'Pacific Gold'
First of all, we are going to talk a little about its characteristics because that way it will be easy for us to identify it when we go to a nursery. Well, this is a genre of highly branched evergreen shrubs native to South Africa growing to a maximum height of two meters. Its bark is brown, lighter or darker depending on the species. They produce linear, green leaves.
It blooms from mid-spring to almost early winter if the weather is mild and warm. The flowers are small, about 7mm in diameter, white or pink.
Main species
The genus is made up of about fifteen species, the following being the best known:
- coleonema album: reaches two meters in height, and produces white flowers.
- coleonema pulchrum: reaches a height of between 0,7 and 1,3 meters, and produces white-pink flowers.
- coleonema pulchellum: known as sky rose or confetti shrub, it is a shrub up to 2 meters long that produces pink flowers.
What are their cares?
coleonema album // Image - Wikimedia / Jardí Botànic de Barcelona
If you want to have a copy, we recommend that you provide it with the following care:
- Location: they must be outside, in full sun.
- Earth:
- Garden: they grow in poor, well-drained soils.
- Pot: can be filled with universal growing substrate mixed with perlite in equal parts.
- Irrigation: about two or three times in summer, less the rest of the year.
- Subscriber: in spring and summer with fertilizers such as liquid guano, following the indications that will be specified on the packaging.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring.
- Rusticity: they resist weak and occasional frosts of up to -4ºC.
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