EUPHORBIA WULFENII.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 3

EUPHORBIA WULFENII.

A HANDSOME SHRUB. A perusal of the English horticultural journals from time to time always brings to light to overseas readers plants that are either entirely new to them or rarely seen. One of the examples of this is Euphorbia Wulfenii, of which a correspondent of the Gardeners’ Chronicle gives the following description:— This handsome Spurge is always an ornament in the mixed border, woodland or foreground of the shrubbery, but it is never quite so striking as it is at this season (February). Throughout the winter the narrow leaves of its ample foliage are a curious bluish green which deepens iu colour as February approaches. Then the leaves nearest the apex of the flowering shoots develop a striking central line of red, the enormous flower heads almost immediately appear, and these, with their bold trusses of yellow blossom, will bo conspicuous objects until spring is advancing into summer. E. Wulfenii is a stout perennial, perfectly hardy, and it makes a cfense, shapely bush up to three feet, possibly more, in height. It appears to do well in any average welldrained soil, and it is one of those plants which never seem to need any attention, yet which always look contented and healthy^^