Photographs are of our actual stock, taken at the nursery. Plants are living things — expect small differences in shape and leaf count from the plant shown.
Flowering Plants
Orange Ixora
Ixora coccinea ‘Orange’
The orange ixora is the loudest of the three, and in full Punjab sun it is genuinely startling — dense heads of hot orange held just above glossy dark leaves, flowering from spring until the cold arrives.
It is used constantly in commercial and roadside planting here because it performs with almost no attention, but it is worth a place in a garden too, particularly massed rather than dotted about. Five plants at half-metre spacing read as one block of colour.
Compact, evergreen, and it takes clipping. Cut it back hard in late winter and it comes away stronger.
- The brightest of the three ixora colours we grow
- Flowers spring until the first cold
- Best massed at 0.5 m spacing rather than dotted about
- Cut back hard in late winter — it responds by flowering harder
Rs 350for the 10 inch pot
Inclusive of pot and mix. Delivery Rs 350, free over Rs 5,000.
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At a glance
- Mature size
- 0.8–1.5 m
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Difficulty
- Easy to keep
- Around pets
- Non-toxic — safe if chewed
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How to look after your Orange Ixora
Written for Pakistani conditions — long hot summers, dry winter air, and hard tap water. Follow this rather than advice written for a temperate climate.
- Light
- Full sun for the heaviest flowering — six hours or more. In partial shade you get foliage and few blooms.
- Water
- Deeply twice a week in summer, weekly in winter. Let the top few centimetres dry between waterings.
- Humidity
- Ambient outdoor humidity is fine.
- Soil
- Well-draining garden soil or a loam-based container mix enriched with compost.
- Feeding
- High-phosphorus feed every 3 weeks through the flowering season to keep buds coming.
- Temperature
- 15–45°C. Most are heat-loving; protect from frost.
If something goes wrong
Healthy leaves but no flowers
Why it happens: Too little sun, or a nitrogen-heavy feed.
What to do: Move into full sun and switch to a high-phosphorus feed.
Buds forming then dropping before opening
Why it happens: Irregular watering or a sudden move.
What to do: Water on a steady schedule and leave the plant in one position while it is budding.
Sticky leaves and black sooty film
Why it happens: Aphids or scale, and the mould that grows on their honeydew.
What to do: Spray with neem oil weekly for three weeks, covering the leaf undersides.
Ixora coccinea
We grow 3 ixora
They differ in leaf shape, mature size and colour — compare them side by side before you choose.
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