Loropetalum chinense

Cultivation Loropetalum chinense
These plants are shrubs. The development is erect, they tend to grow both in height and in width, giving origin to a rounded shrub. Loropetalum chinense Is an evergreen; during spring iIt assumes a pinkwhite colouring; the adult specimens are medium in size and reach 1,5 m high.

Light Loropetalum chinense
The Loropetalum chinense should be preferably located in a place where it can have at least a few hours a day of direct solar light. These plants aren't afraid of the cold weather and can be grwon in the garden throughout the whole year.When the minimum temperatures are very low we can protec the more sensible brushes by covering their roots with dry leaves or straw.

Water Loropetalum chinense
Water regularly, every 2-3 weeks , wetting the soil deeply with about 1-2 buckets of water ,but waiting for the substratum to dry completely between one watering and another; avoid leaving stagnant water. If we decide to grow a specimen of the Loropetalum chinense in a container, we should remember that it will have slightly different needs compared to a specimen grown in the ground: we should pay more attention to its water and nutritional needs and check more often for possible development of parassites.

Pests Loropetalum chinense
As the day-time temperatures rise at the beginning of the spring, it is agreeable to practice a preventive treatment, with a wide-range insecticide, which should be applied when there aren’t flowerings in the garden. Before the buds become too large, it is advisable to also treat them with a wide-range fungicide, to prevent the development of fungal diseases which spread easily when there is an elevated environmental moisture.

Mold Loropetalum chinense
These shrubs need an averagely humid, not too drained soil .

Climate peat sand Soil Pumice Bark S. Organic alpine 4 1 2 1 0 1 continental 3 2 2 2 0 1 mediterranean 2 3 2 3 0 1

Like

Plant - Loropetalum chinense
If desired, we can grow the The Loropetalum chinense in a container. The indications given in this article are related to a medium size plant.

Correlate arguments Shrubs - Loropetalum chinense Perennial Plants - Trillium chloropetalum

This page concerns the weather mediterranean it is possible to choose another climate area alpine continental

write a comment on this plant.