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How to plant and care for Escallonia (Apple Blossom)
Escallonia 'Apple Blossom'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
A glossy evergreen covered in pink-and-white flowers from June to October. Shrugs off salty coastal winds — a great flowering hedge.
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 Escallonia (Apple Blossom): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well for the first summer, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 1 m (45 cm for a hedge)
- Height
- 1.5–2 m
- In pots
- Only in large containers
- Feeding
- Balanced feed in spring
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 7–9
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 1 m (45 cm for a hedge) 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
- JulyIn Flower
Pink-and-white flowers.
- SeptemberTrim After Flowering
Trim lightly after the main flush of flowers.
