Escallonia 'Red Elf'

Hardy Shrub

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A wonderfully versatile evergreen shrub with a profusion of pretty red flowers all summer long. The small glossy leaves persist throughout winter, providing colour and structure in even the bleakest months of the year. Robust and easy to grow, Escallonia 'Red Elf' is a fantastic shrub for low-maintenance gardens, thriving in coastal situations and difficult clay soils. Escallonia shrubs also make superb evergreen hedging plants and are attractive to bees. Height and spread: 1.5m (5'). Supplied as plug plants.

Plant Size Height Up to 200cm (79in)
Spread Up to 200cm (79in)

Hardiness & Longevity Hardy Shrub

Ideal For coastal gardenhedgeslow maintenance gardenscented gardensspecimen plantcottage gardens

Position In full sun

Flowering Months

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Codes
1 Plug Plant (V83574)
3 Plug Plants (V83575)
5 Plug Plants (V83576)

Pot up Escallonia plug plants and grow them on in cool frost-free conditions until large enough to plant outside in their final positions. When plants are well grown, gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over a period of 7 to 10 days before transplanting into borders outdoors. Grow Escallonia in any fertile, well drained soil in full sun, with shelter from cold winds. Escallonia shrubs will happily grow in improved clay soils.

Water regularly throughout the growing season until Escallonia plants are well established. In areas with extreme winters, Escallonia 'Red Elf' is best given some winter protection with horticultural fleece. Escallonia requires little attention, but benefits from a light prune each year to keep it neat and tidy. In mid to late spring, trim or lightly cut back any shoots which spoil the symmetry of the plant, just above a healthy bud. Apply a mulch of well rotted manure or compost around the base of the plant in spring.

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.

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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.