Linnaea, Glossy Abelia 'Edward Goucher'

I love this shrub, with its pleasing combination of flower and leaf colour.
As with all Abelias, it throws out long new growth an...Read Mored can look untidy. I have never tried the cutting to the ground technique described by mystic above, but find that the plant fills in the gaps the following year. It will certainly take hard pruning - as witnessed by the many neatly cropped hedges around here in SW France - but can be left to build into an expansive shrub if preferred.
The scent is lovely and the plant attracts many bees and other insects.

It can be used as a shrubby border or as a screen. The glossy 1/2 to 3/4 inch long leaves clothe arching branches, foliage is bronze ting...Read Moreed when young.

I planted this plant two years ago in my garden. The first year it was beautiful. Second, Very nice, But it had some really heavy big sho...Read Moreots that went straight up. The rest of the bush was arching and symetrical. I pruned those big shoots out. This year, most of the plant is dead. There is new growth down at the bottom, and some out on the ends of some of the branches. I saw on this site that it was at best a zone 7b. I am a zone 5. That is what it says on my information that came with the plant. Could my plant just be suffering from the winter? I love this little shrub, and would like to see it make it.

Blooms on new wood, so prune to the ground in late winter or early spring.This is a hybrid crossed between A. x grandiflora and A. shum...Read Moreannii introduced in 1911 by Edward Goucher of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Semi-evergreen foliage. Pale pink flowers continuously from summer to autumn. It does not like a harsh winter, so shelter it from cold wi...Read Morends, and remove any branches damaged by frost. Water abundantly in summer.