This shrub has upright spreading grey brown stems that form a compact to open rounded habit. It has large, glossy green elliptical leaves and the tube-shaped violet-purple flowers appear in a upright raceme from late spring to summer. 

Hardiness zones 9 to 10

Hebe speciosa is naturally found on both islands of New Zealand growing in coastal regions appearing on cliffs and adjoining hillsides. 

It prefers a well drained poor to moderately fertile moist sandy soils that are tending neutral with a pH range from 7.0 to 8.5  and grows in an open to exposed sunny position and is frost, drought and salt tolerant.

The Showy Hebe is grown for its flowers, glossy foliage and its rounded bushy habit. It is planted in parks and gardens along borders as a filler pant or as a specimen in a seaside garden. It is also grown in large pots and tubs and establishes in 2 years. It requires little maintenance and may be trimmed as hedge. ID 115

Hebe (HEE-bee) speciosa (spee-see-O-sa)

‘Hebe’: ancient Greek goddess of youth; ‘la seduisante’: from French, the seductress

Scrophulariaceae (skrof-yoo-larr-ee-AY-see-ee)
Figwort and Foxglove Family