SPURGE LAURELS

Daphne odora


TYPE OF PLANT: [BUTTERFLY NECTAR PLANT]


Habitat: Tolerates most well-drained, humus-rich soils.

Habit: Small evergreen shrub.

Flower Colour: Flowers are pink. Flowers very early in year (February) and is used by butterfies just out of hibernation.

Planting Time: Buy in pots, or propagate from heel cuttings which were taken in summer.

Nectar Plant for: Butterflies.


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