Abelia engleriana

Abelia engleriana is a hardy form growing about 1.5m like A. grandiflora, but with hairy rather than glossy leaves and soft pink flowers like A. schumannii, without the death wish. However botanists, helpfully, want to lump both A. schumannii and A. engleriana into A. uniflora, but these would then have to have cultivar names as they are distinct. They don't want to go that far, so we are sticking with the names we know.

Abelias

Abelias could well no longer be Abelias if botanists prevail, but for the time being they are. Abelia chinensis is mid-summer flowering with fragrant pale pink, tubular flowers in large clusters, which are extremely attractive to butterflies. Although lacking the glossiness of A. grandiflora it is still an attractive shrub. Completely hardy, for full sun or part shade.