Leucothoe Fontanesiana Rainbow Leucothoe
This colourful shrub requires an acid soil preferably in full or partial shade.
Leucothoe fontanesiana rainbow leucothoe. It also has pretty drooping white urn shaped flowers in clusters that will bloom in spring. Foliage can have shades of green cream white and pinks with red stems. Depending on where you live it might be called a rainbow leucothoe a scarlet fetterbush drooping leucothoe or my favorite plant name of all. Girard s rainbow leucothoe fontanesiana has white pink and bronze new growth.
Showy drooping clusters of white flowers add a nice touch to cut arrangements. Genus leucothoe can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs with simple leathery leaves and racemes or panicles of small bell or urn shaped flowers. Leucothoe fontanesiana rainbow dog hobble is a multi stemmed evergreen shrub prized for its gracefully arching red stems clad with glossy lance shaped leaves 4 in. Leucothoe fontanesiana is known by a wide array of common names.
Long 10 cm marbled cream and pink. A t state university work in tandem along with federal state and local governments to form a strategic partnership called n c. 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. Plant is an easy to care for slow growing multi stemmed evergreen shrub with glossy 3 4 leaves.
Cooperative extension which staffs local offices in all 100 counties and with the eastern band of cherokee indians. Leucothoe racemosa native species found from massachusetts down to louisiana is one of the more cold tolerant forms and has 4 inch 10 cm long racemes of drooping scented flowers from may through june. Leucothoe fontanesiana girard s rainbow girard s rainbow leucothoe print plant details previous plant next plant leucothoe fontanesiana girard s rainbow girard s rainbow leucothoe. Leucothoe fontanesiana rainbow sku 5775 gracefully arching striking red stems with colorful creamy white and green mottled foliage with scarlet accents.
Rainbow drooping leucothoe can be used as a hedge or pruned to stay. A great way to brighten up any shadow location. Leucothoe provide an excellent addition to acidic borders and woodland gardens. Details rainbow is an evergreen shrub to 1 5m tall with slender arching reddish branches bearing glossy lance shaped leaves to 10cm long mottled with cream and pink and short racemes.
Highly ornamental the lush foliage warms up to an outstanding burgundy in the fall. Other common names dog hobble rainbow. This unique cultivar of leucothoe is a splash of white greens and pinks. Rainbow drooping leucothoe is a great evergreen shrub to add to your landscape.
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