Daphne Species, Garland Flower, Rock Daphne, Rose Daphne

Slow growing evergreen low shrub with very fragrant small pink flowers in clusters in spring. Plant is very pricy but no maintenance. G...Read Morereat for rock garden. Best in full sun location.

My first contact with Rose Daphne was it's heady fragrance while visiting a nursery looking for small plants, when I saw the beautiful bl...Read Moreoom's that went with the fragrance I just had to buy some. I purchased 3 knowing that I was pushing the zone a little but 7 years later they are still doing great in my shrub bed despite winter temperatures dipping as low as -34C and sometimes lasting for several days.

I have several daphne cneorum in Richland, Washington, a low-level dry desert in eastern Washington State. One of them is approximately ...Read More5 feet across and it blooms for about three weeks a year in early spring. They are drought tolerant (it grows in sandy soil topped with fine gravel) and they live a long, long time. This one is more than 20 years old. If I stand across the yard next to the blooming lilac (approximately 20 yards), I can still smell the lovely daphne. Everyone should have one of these plants.

D. juliae appears very similar to the popular D. cneorum. The main difference is the fact that the leaves are more blue-green and they b...Read Moreloom about 2 weeks earlier than D. cneorum. They are not as hardy as the later nor as they as easily available.