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Shrub
Glossy Abelia
Abelia × grandiflora
Semi-evergreen shrub with small fragrant flowers over a long season. Dwarf varieties stay smaller.
Recommended uses
- Foundation plantings
- Hedges
- Pollinator gardens
- Plant type
- Flowering shrub
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Shade tolerance
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- White, Pink
- Mature height
- 3–6 ft
- Mature width
- 3–6 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- Medium