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• Other features: in warm areas the flowers are followed by edible red-tinged green fruit

An exotic-looking evergreen shrub producing attractive purple- red flowers with long red stamens in mid-summer and grey- green leaves white-woolly beneath. This pineapple guava copes well with drought and salt-laden air making it a valuable specimen or hedging plant for a sheltered sunny coastal garden. In areas where temperatures fall below 5°C to guarantee a crop of edible fruit it's best grown under glass in a cool greenhouse.

• Garden care: During the growing season water container-grown specimens regularly applying a balanced liquid fertiliser every 4 weeks. Water sparingly in winter.
  
  
• Goes well with: Melianthus major, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Trachycarpus fortunei, Eucomis bicolor, Cordyline australis 'Torbay Dazzler', Verbena bonariensis.