{"product_id":"distylium-blue-cascade","title":"Distylium racemosum 'Blue Cascade'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDistylium racemosum 'Blue Cascade'\u003c\/strong\u003e is the evergreen American designers now reach for where box, laurel and photinia keep failing: an arching, layered cascade of leathery blue-green foliage from the witch-hazel family, punctuated in late winter by small ruby flowers along the stems. It looks quietly exotic and behaves like infrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeat, drought, cold snaps, wet clay: distyliums absorb them all, and 'Blue Cascade' adds the best blue tint and weeping habit in the group. Rated H5, it holds its colour through a British winter without a mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow and where to grow\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePosition:\u003c\/strong\u003e sun or partial shade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSoil:\u003c\/strong\u003e almost anything, clay to sand, acid to neutral.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60-90 cm tall, 1.2-1.5 m wide in arching tiers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHardiness:\u003c\/strong\u003e H5, no caveats.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eMass it as living groundwork beneath the drama of an \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/exotic-border-plants\"\u003eexotic border\u003c\/a\u003e, let it spill over a wall, or use it to floor a light \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/plants-for-shade\"\u003eshade planting\u003c\/a\u003e beneath \u003ca href=\"\/products\/schefflera-taiwaniana\"\u003eSchefflera taiwaniana\u003c\/a\u003e. The dependable understudy of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hardy-exotics\"\u003ehardy exotics\u003c\/a\u003e stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNursery-grown, well-branched plants. Season notes in the \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/hardy-exotics-what-to-expect\"\u003eseasonal expectations guide\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GROW TROPICALS","offers":[{"title":"17cm \/ 2L","offer_id":58370093220223,"sku":"DISTBLUE17","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0361\/9645\/0348\/files\/bluecascade.jpg?v=1789652773","url":"https:\/\/growtropicals.com\/products\/distylium-blue-cascade","provider":"GrowTropicals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}