Dwarf Pieris Flaming Silver

Pieris japonica flaming silver white flowers with variegated foliage.

Dwarf pieris flaming silver. Lustrous dark green foliage cloaks the compact rounded form. Useful in the front of shrub borders. Gardenality is a gardening centric site made by gardeners for gardeners with tools that enhance any gardening for the expert to the weekend gardener. Pieris flaming silver j parker dutch bulbs a winner of the rhs award of garden merit this wonderful evergreen shrub produces brilliant red young foliage that gradually fades to green.

The leaves appear bright red in early spring and fade to variegated silver in summer. Genus pieris are compact evergreen shrubs with leathery dark green leaves often brightly coloured when young and small white urn shaped flowers borne in panicles in spring details flaming silver is a small erect evergreen shrub the young foliage bright red becoming green boldly margined with silvery white. This compact upright shrub. Pieris japonica commonly known as japanese pieris or lily of the valley shrub is a broadleaf evergreen shrub full of colorful surprises.

Pieris are normally hardy in the right situation but because of the timing of their flowering period can be affected by hard frosts. Although the mature leaves are a deep green new leaves. With variegated green and cream foliage new growth is a bright pink in spring bears creamy white bell shaped flowers. When to prune pieris shrubs.

Numerous green buds open to white bell shaped flowers in early spring. The same is true of the flaming red young foliage for which the shrubs are better known. Pieris japonica flaming silver evergreen rounded dense shrub. An exquisite dwarf variety reaching just 2 feet tall in ten years.