Elsa Crisp web special

Elsa Crisp web specialOriginating from the Waterer Nursery in England around 1860, and rare in the trade, there is little information about this cultivar. I am not sure where we acquired it, perhaps from New Zealand, as some old varieties made their way down under in the early 20th century. The flowers are quite nice, stacking up into a tight and tall truss of white and pink. The plant grows to be 5 6 ft tall in 10 years, and the leaves are narrow and dark green. We quite

Be careful to give it the conditions it requires

so it is here in our purple section

Introduced by Duncan and Davies of New Zealand in 1972

The plant is one of the best for foliage and form

we know it is special

This unique cultivar is a columnar dwarf form of Austrian Pine

This dwarf mounding azalea has nice shiny little round leaves

or hydrangeas

silver-blue undersides of the needles to be visible on the  ascending branches

This cultivar was found by Vermeulen in about 1987

If you have the space

and always attracts attention