Rock Rose

A profusion of magenta-pink flowers with prominent yellow centres set against wavy-margined, sage-green leaves in June and July. 'Sunset' is a particularly free-flowering and vivid-pink form of rock rose. Compact and spreading in habit, it makes an attractive, all-year, ground cover plant for a small, sheltered, sunny border.Position: full sunSoil: moderately-fertile, well-drained soilRate of growth: average Flowering period: June and July Flower colour: magenta-pinkOther features: tolerates chalky soil and salt-laden airHardiness: frost hardy (needs winter protection)Garden care: After flowering pinch back young plant to encourage a bushy habit. Lightly trim or cut back any stems that spoil the symmetry of the plant. This plant should never be pruned hardGoes well with: Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton', Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet', Ceratostigma willmottianum, Eryngium variifolium, Artemisia absinthium 'Lambrook Silver', Perovskia 'Blue Spire'
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