Hebe ‘County Park’

Hebe ‘County Park’ photographed at The Quinta Arboretum, Swettenham, Cheshire, UK

Hebe ‘County Park’ is a low-growing, ground cover, evergreen shrub, reaching about 6 in (15 cm) high, and 24 in (60 cm) wide. The leaves are small, spear-shaped, about 0.6 in (15 mm) long, and greyish-green in colour. The flowers in violet spikes are seen in June to July.

This is a seedling from Hebe pimeleoides var glauco-caerulea, raised in 1970 by Graham Hutchins at County Park Nursery, Hornchurch, Essex. Hebe ‘Wingletye’ has the same parentage.

Hardiness = H5     UK Availability = 2

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