Purple Flowering Shrubs South Africa

Plant in full sun.

Purple flowering shrubs south africa. The cape chestnut is a delightful tree for any gauteng kzn or eastern cape garden. Verbena is a beautiful plant that produces small purple blooms all summer long. The clivia is a genus of monocot flowering plants from the amaryllidaceae flower and is native to southern africa. There are very few true blue blue flowering flora in south africa with most garden subjects tending to be mauve or purple rather than blue.

Pink flowering trees cape chestnut calodendrum capense this 25 metre beauty is the towering queen of the pink blossomed trees of south africa. Life landscapes has created a blueprint for a blue palette garden with these these indigenous sapphire flowering garden specimens. Common names are natal lily or bush lily. Hedge plants used decoratively are often trimmed to precise sizes and shapes and may be either evergreen or deciduous shrubs.

It flowers before the leaves in september and october with showy white bottlebrush type flowers that are purple before they open. A hedge is a living wall composed of plants. Blue flowering shrubs for a blue themed landscape. Pruning is rarely needed but is best done in early spring.

Carpobrotus edulis is a flowering plant native to the coastal areas of south africa. The flowers are large daisy like and purple red yellow or dark pink in color. Also known by their tongue twisting scientific name as mesembryanthemum which means midday flowering this little plant is indigenous to the south western cape. Acacia galpinii senegalia galpinii is a very hardy fairly fast growing deciduous thorn tree and is one of the largest of the acacias.

In coldest zones plants often die to the ground and resprout from roots. From evergreen flowering shrubs to dwarf evergreen shrubs here are our favorite varieties for your yard. Some hedges are purely decorative while others serve primarily a practical function. It comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes and a wide array of colours from pinks to purples and oranges to yellows.

The flowers are traditionally used in floral arrangements this flower is also lovely when dried. It belongs to the family aizoaceae and order caryophyllales. There are thousands of types of evergreen bushes in every imaginable height shape and color. Cut plants back to 12 inches above soil.

Shrubs used for the practical function of security should be densely growing and possibly have thorns such as hawthorns or prickly leaves. Pretty blue purple flower heads form on this butterfly bush all summer long and up until fall frost if you remove spent blooms. Large woody pods follow. Needs moist well drained soil.