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How to plant and care for Aubrieta
Aubrieta
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
Cushions of purple, pink and blue flowers spilling over walls and rockeries in spring. Evergreen and loves sun and lime.
When to plant and care for it
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Aubrieta: what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well until established, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Well-drained, limy soil
- Spacing
- 30 cm
- Height
- 10 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- No feeding needed
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 4–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 30 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- AprilIn Flower
Sheets of spring colour.
- MayTrim After Flowering
Shear the whole plant back hard after flowering to keep it compact and stop it going bald in the middle.
