[Free] 56 Escallonia Red Elf Hedge

Escallonia red elf is a small compact evergreen shrub with small glossy ovulate leaves which are an attractive dark green in colour.
Escallonia red elf hedge. Escallonia shrubs grow relatively fast and have both attractive foliage and lovely flowers. Genus escallonia are evergreen shrubs with glossy leathery toothed leaves sometimes sticky and 5 petalled white pink or red flowers in terminal racemes or panicles in summer and early autumn details red elf is a medium sized spreading evergreen shrub with small glossy oval leaves and tubular red flowers in small clusters in early to mid summer. The dwarf red elf cultivar for example takes 10 to 20 years to grow to its full size of 9 feet high by 9 feet wide. Plants can grow to 15 feet 4 5 m in either direction depending on the cultivar. The red elf variety has small tubular dark red flowers that emerge from june to october. In the summer months it bears clusters of small red tubular flowers which add colour and interest to any garden throughout the summertime. The blossoms are tube shaped generally white pink or red and appear on leafy panicles in summer.