Clethra Alnifolia Sixteen Candles
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Clethra alnifolia sixteen candles. This compact selection reaches 3 to 5 feet tall. Superior dense mounded habit with large blooms. Careunder glass grow in acidic soil under bright. Sixteen candles summersweet is derived from a deciduous shrub native to the eastern us.
Clethra are suitable for a woodland garden or mixed border. It has the same white flowers but doesn t have the floppy characteristic so branching is stronger and flower spikes stand upright like candles. It also is better behaved staying in place rather than spreading under ground. Effective when planted in masses.
Golden yellow fall color. Summersweet clethra alnifolia sixteen candles. Clethra are deciduous and evergreen shrubs and small trees grown for their fragrant white to yellow white cup like flowers. It is a rounded suckering densely branched deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3 6 less frequently to 8 tall and is noted for producing a mid to late summer.
Sixteen candles has very fragrant white flowers that appear in mid summer and attract butterflies and hummingbirds along with other insects and birds. Leaves are mid to dark green alternate simple and finely to coarsely toothed. Clethra sixteen candles this is a selection from seedlings of hummingbird. Genus clethra can be deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs sometimes with attractive bark with simple leaves and small fragrant usually white bell shaped flowers in racemes or panicles details sixteen candles is a compact upright deciduous shrub with glossy foliage turning yellow in autumn.
Plant database entry for summersweet clethra alnifolia sixteen candles with 10 images one comment and 25 data details. 5 off all products enter cart5 at checkout. 24 36 in soil conditions. Moist well drained flower color.
Clethra alnifolia commonly called summersweet is a deciduous shrub that is native to swampy woodlands wet marshes stream banks and seashores often in sandy soils along the coast from maine to florida and west to texas. Good foliage with fragrant flowers. Clethra alnifolia sixteen candles sixteen candles summersweet. Clethra alnifolia sixteen candles sku 2009 a profusion of upright fragrant white flower spikes attract butterflies.