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Beauty Bush in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Kolkwitzia amabilis

 

Beauty Bush

A deciduous, fast growing, arching shrub. It produces masses of pink, small flowers that have yellow centres.

 
plant Features
  • Beauty Bush likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Beauty Bush likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Beauty Bush is full frost hardy: 5f (-15°c)

    Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

  • Beauty Bush likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Beauty Bush

Latin name

Kolkwitzia amabilis

type

Trees or Shrubs

family

Caprifoliaceae

ph

5.0 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Beauty Bush likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Beauty Bush is full frost hardy: 5f (-15°c)

    Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

  • Soil

    Beauty Bush likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Beauty Bush likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
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    When the plant will bloom

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Beauty Bush is 3.50meters x 2.50meters 3.50 M 2.50 M

Kolkwitzia amabilis

A deciduous, fast growing, arching shrub. It produces masses of pink, small flowers that have yellow centres.


Planting Outdoors

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

Plant out container grown plants into growing site.

 

Flowering

From Early Spring TO Mid Summer

Masses of pink, small flowers that have yellow centres.

 

Propagation by cuttings

From Mid Autumn TO Late Winter

Take hardwood cuttings of up to .3m from this years growth, making a clean from above a shoot and remove any soft growth. Nearly fill a container with fine grit at the bottom, to enable free draining, and a suitable compost. Place the cutting, having dipped he end in a rooting compound first, with a third of the cutting showing.

 
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