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A small twiggy shrub from southern China with pendulous spikes of pink flowers through summer.
It should be hardy here but is likely to be cut back by winter. I planted it in the Agave house
to ensure a warm summer. Hopefully it will not cast much of a shadow. It did well enough in the Agave house to try it outside where it flowered very late in the year and was slowly overwhelmed by the shade from adjacent shrubs. I have to sort out that shrub border (2024) and it may still linger within. A recent introduction to gardens, Plant Delights Nursery say: "Rostrinucula dependens is the green-sheep of the salvia family, little-known outside its native haunts from Shaanxi, China and south to Yunnan. While rostrinucula will never win a beauty contest, it is well in the running for most unusual. The flaking brown bark adorns an otherwise obscure 4' tall die-back shrub. It remains obscure until late summer, when the long pendent flower racemes emerge from the branch tips, giving the overall effect of a miniature cascading pink waterfall. The tiny pink flowers of Rostrinucula dependens open each day as the floral display travels slowly down the long flower spike, finally ending in mid-October. One of the truly great WHATZAT plants! In warmer climates, the wood may remain and the plant may reach 5-6' tall. We have reports of this surviving protected areas in Connecticut. |
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| 14th September 2013 | ||
