Description: Low growing spreading variety. Bright green leaves, with a thick fawn coloured indumentrum below. Bright red flowers in loose trusses. Keeps its colour better in light shade.
Parentage: haematodes x griersonianum
Ultimate Height: 2.0 meters after 10 years
Flowering Period: This plants flowers in the North Hemisphere around April - May
Hardy in a sheltered site in most UK, Coastal France and northern Italy and Pacific Northwest gardens, but may be damaged in severest winters. Often early into flower and growth. (Please note.)