Yes. It is a hardy evergreen rated RHS H5 and is one of the more cold-tolerant cider gum selections, coping with most UK winters down to roughly -15C once established. Give young plants some shelter from cold, drying winds for their first couple of winters.

Left unpruned it can reach 3-6 m or more over many years, but it responds very well to hard pruning. Cut back or coppice in spring to keep it as a compact shrub of 1.5-3 m, which also keeps the prized rounded juvenile foliage.

Yes, it is fully evergreen and holds its aromatic, silver-blue foliage all year round, giving structure and colour through the winter months.

It can be grown in a large container for a few years if kept well watered and fed, and regular pruning keeps it in scale. Long term it is happier in the open ground, where it is more drought-tolerant and stable in wind.

Prune or coppice hard in early to mid spring. Cutting it back forces fresh juvenile growth, which carries the rounded, intensely silver-blue leaves rather than the longer adult foliage, and keeps the plant bushy and compact.

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