Fall Color Mount Airy Fothergilla
A beautiful addition to the landscape in semi shaded mixed shrub borders or as a background shrub or hedge plant.
Fall color mount airy fothergilla. Airy arboretum in cincinnati ohio. Leaves turn brilliant red orange yellow with shades of purple. It has good blue leaf color during the summer but fall color is not as good as many other cultivars. Rounded deciduous shrub to 5 feet tall and wide.
A deciduous shrub with deep blue green leaves that have spectacular range of fall color. Dirr at the mt. Blue shadow is a sport of mt. Partial to full sun.
The fall color can take on various hues orange yellow green purplish sometimes all on one leaf. Major two shrubs native to the southeastern us. Mount airy was selected for reliable and intense fall color. A very popular.
X intermedia despite often being labeled as f. 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. Despite the interesting bottlebrush flowers in spring most gardeners are more drawn to the superb fall foliage of mount airy dwarf fothergilla shrubs which rivals that of such autumn stars as virginia sweetspire bush. Mount airy is a hybrid fothergilla cultivar that was discovered by plantsman michael a.
Thought to be a cross between fothergilla gardenii and f. Spring for flowers fall for foliage. Dark green oval leaves have bluish undersides. Gardenii of medium height with a more mounded shape and intense powder blue leaves similar in color to blue hostas such as hadspen blue and blue mouse ears but doesn t.
Leaves turn bright red and orange in the fall. One of the top 20 plants for 2018. Showy honey scented bottlebrush like white flowers appear before foliage emerges in spring.