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Ulex Minor

Ulex Minor Care

Ulex Minor

Other names: Dwarf Furze

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What is the plant

Ulex minor, the dwarf furze or dwarf gorse is an evergreen dwarf shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to eastern England, France, Spain and Portugal. It is restricted to lowland heathland habitats. It normally grows about 30 centimetres (10 in) tall, although in shaded, ungrazed conditions it may reach 1 metre (40 in).

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Lighting

Full Sun

Difficulty

Easy

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Water regularly waiting for the substrate to be almost dry; increase watering in summer and reduce it in winter.
Pruning
Pruning group 10 every 2-3 years.
Soil
A small, sometimes procumbent shrub of heaths on free-draining acidic, nutrient-poor soils over podsolised sands and gravels, and occasionally over superficial deposits overlying chalk. In heathland areas it can persist as an under-storey shrub in scrub and secondary woodland.

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Additional
It is a low-growing shrub, forming small bushes or often growing mingled with heather. The leaves are limited to scales or small spines, and the shoots are modified into rather soft, green, densely crowded spines, about 1 cm (0.4 in) long.
Popularity
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