Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Weekly
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering
Outdoor
Cistus Purpureus
Crumpled-paper flowers of purplish pink spotted with brown, ephemeral but renewed every summer morning.
Care Profile
A guide to ensuring your botanical companion thrives.
Origin
Card.origins.mediterranean-basin
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Maintenance
Easy
The one-day rose of the scrubland
Each rockrose flower lasts only a day, opening at dawn and falling at dusk. But the shrub produces hundreds, so the flowering appears continuous.
Adapted to dry garrigue and poor soils, it refuses all excess water and fertilizer. Neglect is its best fertilizer.
"One flower a day, renewed without ever failing."
01
Styling Tip 01
Never Fertilize
Fertilizer causes soft growth and shortens the shrub's life.
02
Styling Tip 02
Don't Cut into Old Wood
The rockrose won't resprout from leafless branches; limit yourself to young shoots.
03
Styling Tip 03
Excellent in Rockeries
Stony soil and a south-facing spot reproduce its native conditions.
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Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering