TAMARIX ramosissima VT

saltcedar, salt cedar

TAMARIX ramosissima VT

saltcedar, salt cedar

Deciduous hardy shrub. Grey-green leaves, numerous tiny pink flowers in summer.
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  • Maintenance advice : At the end of winter, severely prune by leaving 10 cm of the branches that has flowered if you wish to rejuvenate it and enhance its flowering. It tolerates severe pruning if necessary.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : West and Central Asia
  • Use group : Sträucher
  • Height at 10 years : 4 m
  • Width at 10 years : 3 m
  • Growth : Medium
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Full sun
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : tree like
  • Colour of leaves : Silver grey
  • Colour of flowers : Pink
  • Soil type : Dry soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Very floriferous and virus-free variety selection. Beautiful shrub or small tree with light branches and rounded crown. It can spread out when mature and has elegant drooping purple shoots. From July to September, it is covered with thin clusters of light salmon-pink flowers that make large panicles. Outstanding and fluffy appearance. Its bluish green foliage is very thin. Very healthy and easy to grow. It resists to sea spray, wind and heat. It will grow in any soil that is not too heavy, even dry, cool, temporarily flooded, sandy or gravelly soils.