Fothergilla Purple

Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Fothergilla purple. The leathery leaves feature light undersides and turn to fiery shades of red orange and bright yellow in autumn. In the fall they show vibrant fiery colors of purple red yellow and orange. In spring this compact slow growing mounded shrub gets beautifully covered with honey scented upright creamy white bottlebrush like flowers 1 2 in. In the summer there is full foliage with the ivory white flowers.

Blue mist fothergilla is a dense multi stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. There are two major fothergilla species. Produces best bloom and color in full sun but adapts to some shade. Vigorous fothergilla x intermedia blue shadow fothergilla is a compact rounded deciduous shrub that is prized for its profusion of fragrant bottlebrush like white flowers in spring its striking glaucous blue summer foliage its outstanding fall color and excellent disease resistance.

Provides unique color to the landscape as a foundation plant in mixed shrub borders or in mass plantings. Fothergilla x intermedia blue shadow white honey scented flowers at branch tips on a nicely mounded habit of icy blue green foliage. A north american native fothergilla deserves a place in every shade garden for its profuse honey sweet brushy blooms and open airy habit. Weeks of stunning fall colors of red orange and yellow.

Long 2 5 cm before the leaves emerge.