Plant Care Guides / Outdoor & Coastal / Medium shrubs
Indigenous | Easy Care | Medium shrubs
The confetti bush is one of the best-performing evergreen shrubs for coastal gardens. It forms a neat, upright, finely branched bush with soft, needle-like leaves that carry a strong citrus scent when brushed, a family trait it shares with the buchus.
Coleonema album has white flowers and pulchellum has pink flowers, but both cover themselves in a blizzard of tiny blooms from May right through to November, giving the plant its confetti name. It is a fynbos plant through and through: naturally adapted to poor, well-drained, sandy soil, wind, salt air and drought once established. It makes an excellent hedge, screen or filler and needs very little attention once settled.
About 1.2 m high and wide. Easily kept smaller with pruning.
Moderate.
Hedge, screen, shrubbery, container, fynbos border. Excellent in exposed, windy positions where fussier shrubs would struggle.
Full sun to light shade. Flowers best in sun.
Well-drained, sandy, acidic to neutral soil. It grows in the sandy coastal conditions here without special treatment. Avoid heavy, waterlogged soil.
Low to moderate. Drought-hardy once established. Water while settling in.
Minimal. It thrives in poor soil and does not need rich feeding. If you feed, use a low-phosphorus fertiliser.
A light trim after flowering keeps it compact and tidy. It does not need hard pruning and rarely needs much attention.
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