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Colombian glorybush in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Tibouchina Lepidota

 

Colombian glorybush

Beautiful purple blooms and velvet leaves. Tibouchina lepidota is a dwarf compact variety that gets very bushy and flowers profusely in full sun or filtered light. Plants are short, up to 60cml, make a good ground cover. A variegated form is also available.

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plant Features
  • Colombian glorybush likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Colombian glorybush likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Colombian glorybush is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Colombian glorybush likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Colombian glorybush

Latin name

Tibouchina Lepidota

type

Evergreen Shrub

family

Melastomataceae

ph

5.0 - 6.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Colombian glorybush likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Frost

    Colombian glorybush is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Colombian glorybush likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

  • Water

    Colombian glorybush 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 Colombian glorybush is 0.40meters x 0.60meters 0.40 M 0.60 M

Tibouchina Lepidota

Beautiful purple blooms and velvet leaves. Tibouchina lepidota is a dwarf compact variety that gets very bushy and flowers profusely in full sun or filtered light. Plants are short, up to 60cml, make a good ground cover. A variegated form is also available.


Propogation by cuttings

From Early Spring TO Early Spring

Take stem or tip cuttings 8-10cm long in spring. Trim each cutting to just below a pair of leaves, remove the bottom leaves and dip the cut end of cutting in hormone rooting powder. Plant the cutting in an 8cm pot filled with a moistened equal parts of peat moss and coarse sand or perlite. Enclose the whole in a plastic bag or propagating case and stand it in a warm room in bright filtered light. When new growth appears, uncover it and begin to water it moderately. After a further eight weeks, move the young plant into a 10cm pot of standard potting mixture and treat it as a mature specimen.

 

Planting

From Early Spring TO Early Spring

Tibouchina prefer slightly acidic soils with a good amount of organic matter and good drainage, but will adapt to most well-drained garden soils: from very acid to slightly alkaline. Tibouchinas will not thrive in soils that are too alkaline and will show signs of burn around the leaf margins and yellowing between the leaf veins. They are adapted to chalk, clay loam, loam, loamy sand, sandy clay loam and sandy loam soils; but if the soil is less than ideal, dig lots of acid compost into the planting hole and mulch the roots often.

 

Flowering Season

From Late Spring TO Mid Winter

Some flowers are open throughout the year but they are especially plentiful from late Spring to mid Winter

 
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