Rhubarb and Custard Hebe Plants

Hebe 'Rhubarb and Custard' Plants, 2 Litre Pots

Hebe Rhubarb and Custard is a particularly attractive variegated evergreen which is bushy, upright and compact. It blushes wonderfully purple-pink in winter. The stems are red-brown.

Rhubarb and Custard's flowers are purple, drawing bees and butterflies in June to September. It will grow to about 60cm high and wide.

Browse our other hebe varieties, or our full range of ornamental shrubs.

Hebes are only delivered pot-grown, year round.

Features:

• Evergreen, variegated. Pink flush in winter, fades in summer.
• Ruddy-brown stems
• Low maintenance ornamental
• Purple flowers June to September
• Grows well in pots, window boxes
• Good for coastal areas.
• RHS Plants for Pollinators
• Height x Spread: 60cm x 60cm
• Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery

Growing Rhubarb and Custard Hebes

Suitable for any moist, well-drained soil, they tolerate partial shade well. Although not suitable for frost pockets or exposed northern sites, they are hardy across most of the UK, but in cold areas of the North and Scotland they are best grown in pots that can be moved into shelter in winter. In other areas outside the South West, covering them during an extended period of frost or snow is recommended to prevent cosmetic damage, but not essential.

They don't like being hard pruned, so give them a light trim in spring to keep them tight and bushy. If you need to tidy a stray stem, prune it back as little as possible, to a good-looking bud.

In Your Garden Design

Ideal for providing winter interest alongside colourful dogwoods like 'Midwinter Fire', as the leaves turn a shade of deep reddish-pink in cold weather. Would look stunning combined with the wallflower Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'.

Did You Know?

This plant was introduced in 2012 by Tully Nurseries in Ireland and won of the Best New Plant award at The National Plant Show 2012. So it's a money-winner all round.

Money and custard both grow on trees, but we don't stock Pachira aquatica or Annona reticulata. We do, however, grow some fine rhubarb crowns.