Mount Airy Fothergilla Gardenii Shrub

Blooms usually occur in late april or in may and are quite fragrant.

Mount airy fothergilla gardenii shrub. But when it can be planted among other woodland plants it will bring lots of life to your yard or garden setting. Vigorous award winning fothergilla x intermedia mount airy fothergilla is a compact rounded deciduous shrub that is admired for its profusion of honey scented bottlebrush like white flowers in spring its leathery blue green summer foliage its spectacular fall color leaves turn fabulous shades of yellow orange and red purple and excellent disease resistance. Mount airy was selected for reliable and intense fall color. A deciduous shrub with deep blue green leaves that have spectacular range of fall color.

Skip to main content skip to footer content. Ships in spring at the proper planting time for your zone. Fothergilla major mount airy is slower growing than many other flowering shrub choices. It is a plant well worth the wait to attain maturity.

Blooms occur before the foliage and will last for 3 4 weeks. A beautiful addition to the landscape in semi shaded mixed shrub borders or as a background shrub or hedge plant. Dirr at the mt. Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil.

Mount airy fothergilla shrubs gardenality is a gardening centric site made by gardeners for gardeners with tools that enhance any gardening for the expert to the weekend gardener. Mount airy fothergilla gardenii shrub loves sun but also tolerates shade. An excellent specimen shrub. It is a high quality neat clean plant.

2 quart item 46845. Honey scented white blooms in spring lush foliage in summer and brilliant fall color. In spring this shrub is tipped with white flowers 1 to 3 inches long that have the appearance of little bottlebrushes which is why bottlebrush is another common name for the shrub. Mount airy fothergilla gardenii shrub at wayside gardens three seasons of changing beauty every year.

The mount airy fothergilla is a slow growing plant with rounded dark blue green leaves free of disease problems the foliage resembles witchhazel. Airy arboretum in cincinnati ohio. The straight species usually is smaller of being about 3 to 4 ft high but not always while this cultivar is about 5 to 6 ft high. This is the most common cultivar grown and sold in southeast pennsylvania originally discovered in mount airy ohio.

The bottlebrush flowers open and then the blue green foliage begin to unfold on this native flowering shrub. This is a vigorous deciduous shrub that grows 4 5 tall and is noted for its profuse spring flowering excellent summer foliage excellent fall color and consistently upright habit. A honey scented fothergilla with white spring blooms and fall foliage color. Showy honey scented bottlebrush like white flowers appear before foliage emerges in spring.

2 reviews write a review. It is somewhat common in landscapes where people spend more money and is loved by landscape architects.