Colour in the garden doesn't just come from flowers. These pink leaves are appearing after the rain all over my beautiful weeping Syzgium. The bushes also have clusters off red/pink flowers, but I have to choose whether to have flush after flush of pink leaves or one lot of pink flowers. It seems I can't have both. Cutting off the new growth forces pink re-growth a month or so later, but also limits flowering.
What to do? At the moment I am regularly cutting back the leaves but as a kind of compromise I've planted three of these and one I leave alone, so that one flowers for me.
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