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How to plant and care for Hebe (Great Orme)
Hebe 'Great Orme'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
A neat, rounded evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and pink flower spikes fading to white from summer to autumn. Great by the coast.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Hebe (Great Orme): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well until established, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 1 m
- Height
- 1.2 m
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- No feeding needed
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 7–10
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 1 m 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
- AprilLight Trim
Trim lightly after the risk of frost to keep a good shape; remove any frost-damaged tips.
- JulyIn Flower
In flower — take a photo.
- SeptemberDeadhead
Shear off the faded flower spikes.
