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Description

Dipelta yunnanensisYunnan Honeysuckle A choice, quite rare plant from the honeysuckle family, Dipelta yunnanensis is a large, deciduous shrub with arching branches and attractive pale brown, peeling bark, looking rather like a weigela. Elliptical, glossy, mid green leaves are 5 (12cm) long. Small clusters of scented, white, funnel shaped flowers, 1 (2. 5cm) long, with a pink flush and orange markings in the throat, appear in April and May. Conspicuous pinkish green

Foliage turns rich bronze and wine-coloured in late autumn and winter

To get good results growing peaches in Ireland

and dead-head to improve flowering

giving heavy

Possibly the finest cultivar of the native (or long-established) whitebeam

Height: Spread:

5m) Spread: 1’3” (1m) in 2-5 years

glossy dark green leaves

Notable uses: Specimen planting

colouring more reliably than the spring-flowering cherries

Its hop-like female flowers and elongated male catkins are valued by insects and the seeds which follow provide food for smaller mammals

we recommend planting the varieties in groups that repeat themselves down through the hedge