order: dipsacales
family: caprifoliaceae
genus: kolkwitzia
species: amabilis
Beauty bush is the only species in the genus. It's a deciduous, hardy suckering shrub with very long shoots. Stems and branches peel as they age. Flowers appear in late spring or early summer. Flowers are bell-shaped with five pink petals and throat flushed yellow. The flowers remind me of pleiones. But actually they are almost identical with the flowers of Abelia schumannii, also a member of the honeysuckle family.
I separated a sucker from the parent tree this spring to grow in a pot. It's an old sucker that had been pruned back to the base previously. In spring shoots appeared on the short stump. I miscalculated the necessary depth to dig in the soil and ended up digging out a stick with hardly any root on it. I planted it in a pot and moved it to a shady corner of the garden where it doesn't get direct sunlight. After a month, new shoots have extended to form long arches. Meanwhile I can be sure that it has developed enough roots in the ground.
I'll move it to a slightly brighter place so that it produces more energy. That's all there is to do this year. Pruning will be carried out next year after flowering, that is, if there is any flower.
family: caprifoliaceae
genus: kolkwitzia
species: amabilis
Beauty bush is the only species in the genus. It's a deciduous, hardy suckering shrub with very long shoots. Stems and branches peel as they age. Flowers appear in late spring or early summer. Flowers are bell-shaped with five pink petals and throat flushed yellow. The flowers remind me of pleiones. But actually they are almost identical with the flowers of Abelia schumannii, also a member of the honeysuckle family.
I separated a sucker from the parent tree this spring to grow in a pot. It's an old sucker that had been pruned back to the base previously. In spring shoots appeared on the short stump. I miscalculated the necessary depth to dig in the soil and ended up digging out a stick with hardly any root on it. I planted it in a pot and moved it to a shady corner of the garden where it doesn't get direct sunlight. After a month, new shoots have extended to form long arches. Meanwhile I can be sure that it has developed enough roots in the ground.
I'll move it to a slightly brighter place so that it produces more energy. That's all there is to do this year. Pruning will be carried out next year after flowering, that is, if there is any flower.
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| new plant with its wonderful autumn colour. |
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