Plant: Eleanor Tabor - Hawthorn
Hawthorn · Rhaphiolepis indica 'Conor'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dense, rounded evergreen shrub growing 3 to 4 feet high and 4 to 5 feet wide, with silver green foliage whose new growth emerges red orange before maturing to deep green. Pink flowers open from winter through spring, followed by blue black berries that support wildlife. It takes part shade to full sun with at least three hours of direct sun, preferring morning sun, and an average well drained soil at pH 6.0 to 7.5 with medium watering; established plants tolerate moderate drought and coastal exposure. Space plants about 4 feet apart for a low hedge or 6 to 8 feet as individual specimens, and use it for mass plantings, borders, containers, slopes or foundation beds.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A dense, rounded evergreen shrub growing 3 to 4 feet high and 4 to 5 feet wide, with silver green foliage whose new growth emerges red orange before maturing to deep green. Pink flowers open from winter through spring, followed by blue black berries that support wildlife. It takes part shade to full sun with at least three hours of direct sun, preferring morning sun, and an average well drained soil at pH 6.0 to 7.5 with medium watering; established plants tolerate moderate drought and coastal exposure. Space plants about 4 feet apart for a low hedge or 6 to 8 feet as individual specimens, and use it for mass plantings, borders, containers, slopes or foundation beds.
- Flowers
- Pink flowers open from winter into spring, with an occasional fall rebloom in mild climates.
- Foliage
- Leaves are alternate, simple, elliptical to lanceolate with serrate margins and up to 3 inches long, glossy and leathery, emerging bronze and maturing deep green.
- Fruit
- Subglobose berries that ripen purplish bluish black and persist into winter.
- Light
- Morning Sun
- Native range
- South China to Indo-China and temperate Eastern Asia
