Exchorda macrantha ‘The Bride’ is a really early flowering shrub for the garden, growing 5-6′ tall, with an equal spread, its a great shrub for filling space in a large shrub bed and for giving really early season colour in the garden.
It will grow from full sun to partial shade and will tolerant a good bit of exposure, pruning is easy, if needed cut it back hard immediately after flowering.
Gareth Austin is a Community focused Horticulturist based in Derry-Londonderry and voice of Gardening on the Mark Patterson Show on BBC Radio Foyle. Gareth specialises in Community horticulture, offering a wide range of events, programmes and acitivity on engaging people in the exciting world of Horticulture. Gareth lectures in Horticulture in the North West Regional College and offers school horticulture programs through the Western Education + Library Board. Gareth is passionate about changing land-use to a more positive use, urban food production and showcasing the flora of county Derry through the City of Horti-Culture programme of events.
