Colutea media 'Copper Beauty'

Bladder Senna

Hardy Shrub

£34.99

Pea-like flowers in a striking copper colour

Attractive bladder-like seed pods

Ideal for dry sunny borders

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1 x 3 Litre Potted Plant

£34.99

Please note: This product cannot be delivered outside the United Kingdom.

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This unusual shrub delivers interesting flowers in a rare colour, beautiful foliage and intriguing, bladder-like seedpods. Colutea media ‘Copper Beauty’ is a vigorous, bushy shrub with blue-green ladder-like leaves composed of 5 or 6 leaflets. In June and July, it is covered in racemes of 3 to 8 pea-like flowers in a lovely bronze-orange spotted with yellow markings. The flowers are followed by striking, red-tinged, bladder-like seed pods about 8cm long. The pods inflate as the seeds ripen and pop loudly when squeezed making them irresistible to curious children! Colutea media ‘Copper Beauty’ is easy to grow in a hot, sunny border with freely draining soil. Resistant to pollution it suits urban gardens and grows well in coastal locations and on dry banks. Its size can easily be restricted by pruning after flowering. Height and spread: 3m (10ft).

Plant height and spread is seasonal therefore we list by pot size rather than a defined plant size. The height and spread of the plant delivered will vary depending on the season, meaning arrival images are an indication only.

Plant Size Height Up to 3m (10ft)
Spread Up to 3m (10ft)

Hardiness & Longevity Hardy Shrub

Ideal For cottage gardenscoastal garden

Position In full sun

Flowering Months

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Codes
1 x 10 Litre Potted Plant (KF3138)
1 x 3 Litre Potted Plant (KF3139)

Grow in freely draining soils in a position with full sun. Will cope with nutrient-poor soils. Suits coastal situations. If required, prune after flowering.

Water regularly until established, but once established, will tolerate drought conditions. Requires very little maintenance. After flowering, lightly trim shoots. Can be pruned hard to rejuvenate leggy plants.

Seeds and garden supplies will normally be delivered within the time period stated against each product as detailed above. Plants, bulbs, corms, tubers, shrubs, trees, potatoes, etc. are delivered at the appropriate time for planting or potting on. Delivery times will be stated on the product page above, or in your order acknowledgement page and email.

Orders for packets of seed incur a delivery charge of £2.99.

Orders which include any other products will incur a delivery charge of £6.99.

Where an order includes both packets of seeds and other products, a maximum delivery charge of £7.99 will apply - regardless of the number of items ordered.

Large items may incur a higher delivery charge - this will be displayed in your shopping basket.

Please see our Delivery page for further details, and more information on different charges that may apply to certain destinations.

For more information on how we send your plants please visit our Helpful Guide on plant sizes.

Van Meuwen strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3.