The most beautiful varieties at a glance

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Alba

Blue flowers are typical for wild chaste tree varieties. These colors are also predominantly cultivated in the garden. If you want to deviate from that and are looking for an innocent white, then with Alba you are on the right track. This flower color makes the shrub appear elegant and can also be combined well with neighboring plants of different colors, e.g. B. with purple lavender.

  • Max. Height is 3 m
  • possible width is 1.5 m
  • suitable for garden beds and buckets
  • The flowering period extends from August to October

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Blue Diddley

The Blue Diddley variety naturally blooms blue, otherwise it would not have that name. The approx. At first glance, 20 cm long panicles are reminiscent of the more well-known among gardeners Butterfly lilac. Blue Diddley is a new variety that grows very compactly.

  • very densely branched
  • a smaller variety with a height of 1.2 and the same width
  • a beautiful solitaire for the terrace
  • blooms in August and September

Tips

If you cultivate monk's pepper in the bucket, it demands more care of you as a free-range specimen. In winter it has to be hardy Hibernate the shrub in the house frost-free because it is more sensitive in the pot.

Latifolia

On a sunny Location Monk's pepper Latifolia transforms your garden into a blue-violet sea of ​​flowers in the truest sense of the word. Because this shrub takes on enormous proportions over the years.

  • grows up to 5 m high and 2 m wide
  • blooms in July and August
  • upright blue-violet panicles of flowers

White Spire

White Spire is a white flowering variety that blooms into autumn. Compared to the Alba variety, the shrub does not get that big and is therefore the better alternative for the Cultivation in a small garden.

  • grows upright and bushy
  • becomes about 1.5 m high and wide
  • Flowering period from late July to October