Itea ilicifolia

An evergreen holly like shrub from Central China, reaching 2 to 3m high if left unpruned, often grown on a wall, but perfectly hardy away from one in semi-shade or full sun. The lax stems are laden with distinctive and highly attractive long, pendulous, catkin-like racemes of fragrant greenish-white flowers in late summer. A hardy tolerant shrub of great beauty when in flower, for any reasonable soil, not excessively dry.

£22.50