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    TAMARIX
    TAMARIX
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    TAMARIX

    Commonly known as Tamarisk

    The feathery, billowy, pink or white shrub of the coastal strip.

    Genus of 54 species of deciduous shrubs and small trees from coastal sites and dry or marshy, often salt-rich areas inland from western Europe and the Mediterranean to eastern Asia and India.

    Full Plant Details - Sun/Soil & other attributes
    • Good to know
      Grown for their feathery foliage and attractive plumes of flowers. Excellent for coastal planting where they may be used as windbreaks. Should be pruned regularly to avoid their becoming top heavy and unstable.
    • Place of origin
      Western Europe, Mediterranean, eastern Asia, India
    • Resistant to honey fungus
      These plants have little or few problems with honey fungus.
    • Deciduous
    • Coastal / windswept
    • Tall Shrub
    • Tree
      Small tree
    View Planting Tips and Care Advice

    varieties
    TAMARIX tetrandra
    Pale pink flowers earlier in the year than ramosissima
     
    2 to 3 Litre
    £17.50

    Useful extras...

    Vermin & Pest Control
    Slug Pellets
    Slug killer blue mini pellets are easy to use and give effective control of slugs and snails. Ideal in garden, conservatory or greenhouse.
    800g
    £6.50
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
    Q4 Pelleted Fertiliser
    A useful fertiliser suitable for use on a wide variety of plants. Q4 provides all the nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
    0.9 kg
    £6.00
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    2.5 kg
    £13.00
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    4.5 kg
    £25.00
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
    Afterplant - Tomatoes
    AFTER PLANT TOMATO FEED Liquid Concentrate with Bio stimulant is a high potash liquid concentrate containing seaweed extract, plant derived amino acids and other nutrients specifically formulated to benefit tomatoes and greenhouse plants.
    1ltr
    £8.50
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