Purple Hopbush Red flowers
Explore this garden shrub directory, covering colour, use, shape, size of shrubs. Use this shrub for screening purposes. Climbers and spreading shrubs are ideal plants that can be used for screening. Shrubs like this cover an area in a short time, and can be trained and pruned to suit the space.
Purple Hopbush
Dodonaea Viscosa 'Purpurea'
Red flowers
Summer flowering shrub
Use this shrub for screening purposes. Climbers and spreading shrubs are ideal plants that can be used for screening. Shrubs like this cover an area in a short time, and can be trained and pruned to suit the space.
Garden shrubs like this classed as an evergreen shrub. This means the shrub will keep its leaves (normally green) in winter season irrespective of the climate being hot, cold or mild. The most classic example of an evergreen is the fir tree
The shrub is considered hardy but this is a relative term and the degree of hardiness depends upon severity of climate. Seek specific advice if you live in a severe winter area
When fully grown this shrub will reach a height of about 10 feet and spread over an area of about 10 feet
Acidic soil or soil with pH less than 7.0 is preferred for this shrub to thrive best. Peat can be used to correct soils which are not acidic
You can safely prune this shrub to achieve the look and shrub shape you want. The shrub will benefit from hard cutting normally
This shrub has spectacular and attractive foliage