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Disporum Hookeri

 

Hooker's Fairy Bells

Disporum are rhizomatous perennials. They have alternate leaves on sparsely branched stems, and in Spring bear solitary or clustered, nodding tubular or bell-shaped flowers in the leaf axils. The flowers are followed by berries. Disporum Hookeri - Hooker's Fairy Bells - bear small clusters of 2 or 3 creamy-white open-bell-shaped flowers that are followed by red berries

 
plant Features
  • Hookers Fairy Bells likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Hookers Fairy Bells likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Hookers Fairy Bells is full frost hardy: 5f (-15°c)

    Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

  • Hookers Fairy Bells likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Hooker's Fairy Bells

Latin name

Disporum Hookeri

type

Perennial

family

Colchicaceae

ph

5.5 - 7.3 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Hookers Fairy Bells likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Frost

    Hookers Fairy Bells is full frost hardy: 5f (-15°c)

    Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

  • Soil

    Hookers Fairy Bells likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

  • Water

    Hookers Fairy Bells likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
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    When the plant will bloom

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Hookers Fairy Bells is 0.30meters x 1.00meters 0.30 M 1.00 M

Disporum Hookeri

Disporum are rhizomatous perennials. They have alternate leaves on sparsely branched stems, and in Spring bear solitary or clustered, nodding tubular or bell-shaped flowers in the leaf axils. The flowers are followed by berries. Disporum Hookeri - Hooker's Fairy Bells - bear small clusters of 2 or 3 creamy-white open-bell-shaped flowers that are followed by red berries


Flowering

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

The clusters of pendent tubular flowers open in Spring, and are followed by black fruit

 

Planting

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

Plant in cool, humus-rich soil, that is moist but well drained, neutral to acid, in a partially shaded site

 

Propagating by division

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Divide the roots, by digging up the whole plant, and pulling or cutting apart into divisions that can be replanted straight away, before growth starts in Spring, or just as it has started growing

 
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