Tamarix ramosissima Description
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Tamarix has graceful filigree foliage and producing masses of delicate pink blossom in late summer. It is ideal as a screen in coastal locations and exposed areas where it is planted as an attractive and protective loose hedge.
Tamarix ramosissima - Cultivation Notes
This large shrub is ideally suited to extreme maritime planting, preferring any decent soil - other chalk in - full sun in an exposed coastal situation. This fast growing slender shrub requires pruning back hard in spring to keep a compact form, especially if exposed to coastal salt laden winds.
Strengths, Weaknesses & Design Usage
Strengths of Tamarix ramosissima:
- Sun loving drought tolerant plant
- Attracts wildlife to feed or nest
- All round tough plant suitable for problem areas
- Ideal for fast growing screening
- Suitable for exposed coastal planting
- Tolerates full sun and sandy, drought-prone soils
- Tolerates cold exposed locations
- Suitable for hedging or topiary
- Tolerates heavy clay soils
Design & Plant Use for Tamarix ramosissima:
- Tall summer flowering shrub suitable for back of border planting
- Ideal flowering shrub for problem clay soils
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Common Missspellings: Tamerix, Tamarex, Tamarics