Dwarf Bottlebrush Buckeye

You need to pinch the stem tips and thin the branches down near the trunk.

Dwarf bottlebrush buckeye. One of the showiest flowering shrubs for the dappled shade garden. Bottlebrush buckeye aesculus parviflora. This one matures to around 4 5 tall and at least as wide and flowers earlier in late spring and early summer. The plant is ideal for container gardens hedges mixed border plants rock gardens and near house walls.

This is a dwarf version of our stunning and large bottlebrush buckeye. Grows in a dense mounded multi stemmed shrub up to 8 12ft. Commonly called bottlebrush buckeye is noted for being one of the best summer flowering shrubs for shade areas. It is useful as an understory planting in woodland gardens as a specimen plant or in a shrub border.

Dense mounding form with large leaves creates a wonderful presence as a foundation shrub or massed under trees. Tall 240 360 cm and spreads 8 15 ft. A fine addition to north american native plant gardens shade gardens woodland gardens and white theme gardens. People often expect the prettiest plants to be a pain to grow but that certainly isn t the case here.

A densely branched habit with blue green leaves that have a citrus scent when crushed. Typical bottlebrush flowers are 15 long puffy creamy white spikes that swallowtails swarm to. Also known as aesculus macrostachya. Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide the bottlebrush buckeye is ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings or mass plantings in shady flowering shrub and woodland borders.

Although there isn t a hard and fast rule for common names the smaller species of horsechestnuts are usually referred to as buckeyes and the larger ones as horsechestnuts. Flowers give way to glossy inedible nuts buckeyes. Pruning dwarf bottlebrush will help in promoting branching. Bottlebrush buckeye is a handsome shrub that has memorable long fluffy white flower clusters in early july.

Bottlebrush buckeye the morton arboretum. The versatile compact size is perfect for today s smaller gardens. Autumn leaves turn a nice golden yellow before falling off. Foliage turns yellow in the fall.

In warm temperate regions it will continue to bloom intermittently throughout the year. Bottlebrush buckeye needs moist well drained soil and partial to full shade. Bottlebrush buckeye dwarf buckeye dwarf horse chestnut recipient of the prestigious award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society the theodore klein plant award. It is a dense mounded suckering deciduous multi stemmed shrub which typically grows 6 12 tall.