MAKE DAPHNE YOUR VALENTINE!
A wonderful fact of nature is that early flowers tend to be particularly fragrant because of their need to attract the few pollinators that are about. If you can site your daphne in a sheltered position you’ll get more value from the richly scented flowers.
Daphnes aren’t too difficult to please in terms of site and soil requirements, but soils should neither dry out nor become waterlogged. Extremely acidic soils will not be suitable.
Daphnes aren’t too difficult to please in terms of site and soil requirements, but soils should neither dry out nor become waterlogged. Extremely acidic soils will not be suitable.
Sun or partial shade is equally suitable which means that they can be grown near trees. Other possibilities would include a rock garden or shrub border.
Shrubs of this size are perfect for most gardens because they don’t take up too much space. Daphne mezereum has an upright habit of growth and will normally reach no more than 1.2m in height and a spread of 1m and as with the best garden plants, it isn’t just early spring flowers that they deliver. Flowers are followed by attractive fleshy red fruit (inedible), yellow in the case of Daphne mezereum alba. Maintenance is simplicity itself: just trim back any untidy shoots after flowering. Otherwise they will look after themselves very happily.
Shrubs of this size are perfect for most gardens because they don’t take up too much space. Daphne mezereum has an upright habit of growth and will normally reach no more than 1.2m in height and a spread of 1m and as with the best garden plants, it isn’t just early spring flowers that they deliver. Flowers are followed by attractive fleshy red fruit (inedible), yellow in the case of Daphne mezereum alba. Maintenance is simplicity itself: just trim back any untidy shoots after flowering. Otherwise they will look after themselves very happily.
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