Philadelphus 'Belle Etoile' Shrubs

Philadelphus Belle Etoile Hedging

Philadelphus Belle Etoile is a variety of Mock Orange bush with large, fragrant, open white flowers that have purple eye and bright yellow pollen in the centre. It is a vigorous, arching shrub that makes a great plant for the back of a border and it's also ideal for an informal, low maintenance hedge up to about 2 metres high.
You can also buy Philadelphus Virginal, which is delivered bareroot in the winter season.

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All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots & pots aren't measured).

Spacing a Philadelphus Belle Etoile hedge:

Plant at 2 plants per metre, 50cm apart.

General description of Philadelphus Belle Etoile plants:

With its beautiful single, white, heavily scented flowers, this is a shrub is on many a gardener's "favourite" list. Upright and shapely, strong growing with beautiful foliage, Belle Etoile is superb as a host for a small climbing clematis, as a stand a lone specimen or as a rough around the edges hedge: don't trim it much, or you'll lose the flowers.

History & uses:

This cultivar was bred around 1930 and has won both the RHS Award of Garden Merit and an Award of Merit for its cut flowers.