Daphne Eternal Fragrance Care Guide

Adorn your garden with blush pink flower clusters compact for long-lasting beauty and fragrance only made possible by the eternal fragrance daphne.

Yes, this shrub looks great in any setting or an urban garden with other landscape plants. Your outdoor plant remains evergreen. It can grow up to three feet tall and spread three feet wide.

Sometimes you even have fragrant white tubular flowers, depending on the species you have. Today, we will help grow the eternal fragrance daphne to provide you with a display of color in your garden.

Daphne Eternal Fragrance Plant Care

The eternal fragrance daphne makes for great ornamental and landscape plants. The dark green foliage emerges light green during spring. While in winter you have dark green leaves. The only thing not ornamentally significant is the fruit.

_{Recommended Potting Mix A Well-Drained Soil}

Your eternal fragrance Daphne is a bit picky when it comes to caring. So if you want your eternal fragrance to love you, then provide them with sandy soils with excellent drainage. This applies if you grow them in containers or outside.

The problem is that this multi-stemmed evergreen shrub can get root rot fast, leading to its death. We recommend a soil pH level between 5.5 and 6.4. To help provide the moisture, you can add a thick mulch to hold water in summer.

_{The Best Lighting Condition is Light Shade}

Okay, depending on the Daphne variety you have, they do well in a sunny location. Still, these ornamental features bloom in part shade and display nicely in shady conditions. The only problem is the flowering reduces.

You can place them with group plantings that thrive in acidic soil if you want to treat them as indoor plants.

_{Watering Your Daphne}

When you grow your Daphne in a suitable container or outdoors with facer plants, water them several times. Once your growing plants settle, you need to keep them moist with excellent drainage. You can do this by keeping the mulch moist.

_{Ideal Temperature & Humidity}

The Daphne shrub you need to consider as semi-evergreen or as deciduous as they drop their leaves. So in early spring, you will notice new growth and thrive in warm temperatures with high humidity. But be careful with too much moisture; it can result in fungal leaf spots.

Here it also depends on your variety, as some can handle colder climates like the winter Daphne. In contrast, others in outdoor containers are best bringing them indoors to prevent frost from damaging the plant.

_{The Best Fertilizer For Your Eternal Fragrance Daphne}

You can feed your shrub twice a year using a granular fertilizer, for example, a 10:10:10 one. The best time to prune is in February, March, or July.

_{Propagating Daphne x Transatlantica Blafra}

The best method to propagate your Dahne shrub is through a semi-green cutting. You can take a cutting anytime from July to September. But this plant is a slow grower, and many people prefer to buy a nursery-grown one.

But we are not saying you cannot attempt it! You can cut the stem in late summer. Preferably look for a plant with a firm wood stem with green growth emerging. Cut the branch into six-inch segments with mature leaves on them.

Remove the lower half leaves and plant them into a mixture of sand with some peat moss. Water thoroughly and cover them with a plastic bag or pot. Place them where they can receive bright indirect light.

Once the roots develop, which can take months, you can transplant your shrubs into larger containers. Then, when you see plenty of new growth, you can plant them in an outdoor landscape.

_{USDA Growth Zone}

While the Daphne is hardy and tolerant to any climate, you can grow them in hardiness zones four to nine. Still, in zones four and five, you may find them dropping their leaves in winter.

_{Pruning Daphne}

The Daphne is a slow grower and needs little pruning as they mature into a rounded shrub. Occasionally you can remove some misbehaving branches that break. The best time to do this is after flowering. Your shrub does not enjoy pruning, and neither does it enjoy transplanting as it has refined foliage that is naturally dense.

Daphne Varieties

You can find several varieties of the Daphne shrubs as follow to add to your collection:

_{Winter daphne (D. odora)}

Now, this cultivar has a fantastic fragrance and grows up to four feet tall. It has glossy leaves and can die without any apparent cause. You find the shrub blooming in winter.

_{Garland daphne (D. cneorum)}

The shrub grows up to a foot tall and is favored to use in rock gardens. It has vining branches that spread, and you find them covered in flowers in spring

_{D. x burkwoodii} 

The shrub is a popular hybrid that can be evergreen, semi-evergreen or deciduous. The shrub grows up to four feet tall, and you find them blooming in spring or summer.

Daphne Eternal Fragrance Plant Diseases & Pests

Daphne’s eternal fragrance is more likely to get leaf spots, twig blight, and crown rot in colder temperatures. Some insects that can cause havoc on your plant are scale, mealybugs, and aphids. But many experts advise that this plant can die for no reason at all.