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
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Partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Hooker's Fairy Bells
Latin name
Disporum Hookeri
type
Perennial
family
Colchicaceae
ph
5.5 - 7.3 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade
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Frost
Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Soil
Moist and free draining
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Water
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
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