Description

A beautiful, fine evergreen shrub great for planting along walkways where the scent can be appreciated; attracts bees; a short lived shrub but will re-seed; prune out interior branches to keep it looking its best

Landscape Attributes

African Scurf Pea is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.

African Scurf Pea is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

African Scurf Pea will grow to be about 12 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 feet. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 15 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This species is not originally from North America.