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It makes for an unusual and delightfully informal long-flowering hedge, or is equally good as an inclusion into a mixed border. Compact and rounded in habit, although it will tolerate partial shade it flowers best in full sun.

• Height and spread: 1m x 1.5m (3ft x 5ft)

• Position: full sun

• Soil: poor to moderately fertile, well-drained soil, doesn't like wet

• Rate of growth: average

• Flowering period: May to October

• Flower colour: bright yellow, also primrose yellow, and a range of reds and pinks

• Other features: mounds of small, dark green leaves

• Hardiness: fully hardy

• Uses: Hedging / mixed border

• Planting distance when used for hedging: 30-45cm, 18-24"

• Clipped height: 0.6-1.2m, 2-4ft

• Number of times to clip per season and when: 1, spring

• Pruning: Mid spring after flowering, trim in autumn also if required. There is a tendency to retain old twiggy shoots, remove these to retain a compact dense growth, also shorten long wayward shoots by up to a half of their length.

• Responds to renovation?: Not usually, sometimes responds to renovation if cut back to about 15cm, 6" of the ground, if not then replace the plant.
  

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