Pieris Mountain Snow Plant
New bronze colored foliage matures to dark green.
Pieris mountain snow plant. It offers interest in the garden with bronze red colored new leaves that mature to dark green and pendulous flower buds that appear in fall and persist through the winter opening in early spring to reveal beautiful ivory white urn shaped flowers. Pieris mountain snow is more heat tolerant that traditional pieris japonica. Attractive pendulous flower buds appear in summer and persist through winter before opening in early spring with beautiful ivory white flowers. It is a spring white flowering shrub for the shade.
Water regularly during the first growing season to establish its root system about once per week. Ensure you plant in a reliably sunny area one that receives 4 to 6 hours of sunlight a day and in. Elegant in foliage and form the year around these plants make good companions for rhododendron and azalea to which they are related. New growth emerges with bronze colored foliage and matures to a deep green.
More heat tolerant than standard pieris japonica mountain snow offers interest in the garden with both foliage and showy blooms. Mountain snow pieris care. Apply a balanced fertilizer to your shrub in. The plant is also called andromeda japonica or by its cultivar name mountain fire andromeda it s also known by the name lily of the valley it grows natively in the mountain thickets of.
Mountain snow pieris flowering evergreen shade plant in this video i add a mountain snow pieris to my yard. Mountain snow pieris japonica planow is a compact evergreen shrub with showy white flowers in the spring. They have whorls of leathery narrowly oval glossy leaves in medium to dark green. Pieris mountain snow pieris japonica planow is an ornamental shrub with year round interest.
It is an evergreen that has. Mountain pieris pieris floribunda is native to north america and is more pest resistant but somewhat less showy. Excellent as an accent plant and for mass plantings.