Crinodendron hookerianum
Adorable Lantern Blooms Light Up The Spring To Summer Garden
From Just £14.99
Key Features
RHS Garden
Merit
Merit
Perfect
In Pots
In Pots
Plant
In Sunshine
In Sunshine
Plant
Part Shade
Part Shade
Winter
Hardy
Hardy
Easy To Grow
Width: 250cm
Height: 400cm
Height: 400cm
- See an abundance of unique deep pink lantern-like flowers that bloom for months from spring right into the early autumn months
- An evergreen shrub with glossy dark green foliage, providing structure, texture and colour in the garden all year round with little maintenance needed
- A superb performer awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, offering guaranteed success and reliability. This is a stylish variety you'll adore!
- Grows happily in a sunny or partially shaded position, particularly when the roots are kept cool, making it perfect for borders or large patio containers
- Ideal for gardeners who want something striking, easy to grow and highly decorative, with an unusually long flowering season and exotic-looking blooms
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Description
Few garden beauties boast such iconic, instantly-recognisable blooms as the Chile Lantern Tree. This show-stopping shrub is easy to grow, evergreen, and flowers for months on end. Crinodendron hookerianum boasts glossy foliage, an incredibly long flowering season and masses of deep pink lantern-shaped blooms.
From spring to early autumn, it bursts into flower with pendulous, bell-like blooms that dangle like glowing lanterns across every branch. These unusual flowers are bold enough to stand out in a border, but elegant enough to work in a more formal setting too. And because they keep coming for months, you get serious flower power with minimal fuss.
The dark green evergreen leaves form a smart, bushy background that stays tidy all year round. Grow it in a sunny or partially shaded spot, it's happy either way as long as the roots stay cool and moist.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, this is a plant you can grow with confidence. It’s been tested and proven in British gardens, and once established, it’ll bring colour, texture and that all-important wow factor year after year.
So if your garden needs a splash of colour, something with a bit of drama and loads of charm, the Chile Lantern Tree won't disappoint. It’s bold, beautiful, and far easier to grow than it looks.
Top Tips
Either grow in partial shade or in a sunny spot where the roots can be kept cool and shaded.
Care Information
- Blooms form from the autumn so provide frost protection where necessary over winter in more exposed positions.
- In late winter, feed with slow-release fertiliser, as well as some sulphate of potash, then mulch around your shrub with ericaceous compost, pine needles or leaf mould.
Pruning Advice:
- Pruning can be done in spring or autumn after flowering, when you can lightly cut back any shoots that spoil the shape of the plant.
- Remove any dead or damaged branches and thin out to let light in to the centre of the bush to help flowering the following year.
Delivery Information
Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.
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