Habitat: sunny places
Soil: gritty, well drained
Height: 1.2 m
Flowering: early spring to summer
Width: 80 cm
Euphorbias are a varied genus of plants that include cacti-like succulents and the leathery-leaved wood spurges that we are more familiar with from our gardens. Most species produce tiny flowers surrounded by long-lasting, conspicuous bracts. These appear in various colours - red, purple, yellow and the glorious acid-green that we most associate with euphorbias.
Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii is a great, beefy, evergreen shrub with whorls of narrow leaves and large, dense heads of flowers in that sharp, yellow-green shade that euphorbias do so well.
9 cm pot £3.00
| Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea' is a cultivar of the Wood spurge with dark purple-red, evergreen, leathery leaves and cymes of sulfur-yellow flowers - a stunning contrast. | |
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| Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae Mrs Robb's bonnet has broader, darker, tougher leaves than the species. | |
| Euphorbia cyparissias 'Fen's Ruby' has rather delicate foliage for a euphorbia. Linear, red-tinged leaves are crowded on flowing stems giving a feathery appearance; yellowy green flowers. |