Good plant #42 - Hebe 'Snowdrift'

This is a large evergreen and prolific flowering shrub.  Even in the harshest winters this plant gets through largely unscathed.  It can tolerate drought and thrives in well-drained soils, including light unfertile soils.  I recommend growing this in a sunny site and even in a large pot.

You can dead head in summer and further flowers will be produced in autumn. I find hebes don't like pruning particularly. However, if you want to maintain a compact-ish shape you can prune a little immediately after flowering is over.  My advice is only remove a maximum of a third of the branches, leaving at least some foliage on each branch .

To propagate, you can do cuttings in autumn and sow the seeds in mid spring.

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