Desfontainea

Desfontainea - In favoured gardens along the southern coast, and in other mild parts, D. spinosa, a very beautiful evergreen shrub from Chili, can be grown and flowered out of doors. It is of moderate growth, having foliage very much like the Holly, and handsome flowers in the form of a tube of bright scarlet tipped with yellow. It usually flowers about the end of summer, and in some parts, as at Abbotsbury and in Devonshire, it blooms profusely, thriving in a light loamy soil, and even round the coasts as far as the north of Ireland, but once a few miles from the protection of the sea air it ceases to thrive and perishes, and is therefore only of most value on seashore or hill districts.

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