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  Philotheca myoporoides 'Ruby Cascade'

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A delightful and easy care medium sized shrub that gets covered with starry white flowers and red buds in late winter to spring, and will bloom over a couple of months. The stems make superb cut flowers with a bonus  spicy apple fragrance, and cutting will improve the plant shape creating a more compact habit. It is a hardy and waterwise plant once it gets established. It grows to around 60 cms tall and to a metre wide, and is a good plant around playgrounds as the stems are flexible not woody. Also great in containers. Good in sun to part shade, drought and frost tolerant and is naturally neat growing. It can be pruned to size if needed. This plant used to be known as Eriostomen myoporoides.