Pieris Forest Flame Tree
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This pieris prefers acidic fertile and moist well drained soil and a sunny or partly shaded sheltered position.
Pieris forest flame tree. Keep an eye out also for pieris flaming silver which developed as a sport or mutation of forest flame and has a very attractive silver margin to the leaves producing a good red display of new. It produces narrow oval. Pieris forest flame provides a burst of bright red new leaves in spring which gradually mature to pink cream and then green. Genus pieris are compact evergreen shrubs with leathery dark green leaves often brightly coloured when young and small white urn shaped flowers borne in panicles in spring details forest flame is a large evergreen shrub the young foliage bright red becoming pink and cream finally green.
Young spring leaves are bright red fading through coral pink and cream before reaching their final shade of dark green. Awarded and rhs agm for its outstanding garden performance pieris forest flame is a well loved variety and often thought to be one of the best. Pieris forest flame lily of the valley shrub very pretty and hardy. Pieris is an attractive and easy to grow showy spring shrub.
This hybrid grows 6 to 12 feet tall and spreads 3 to 8 feet. Pieris forest flame is a large evergreen upright and frost hardy shrub with glossy leaves that are red when young turning pink creamy white and then dark green. Panicles of small cream flowers are produced in spring. Forest flame forest flame is an evergreen shrub with green foliage that starts off red changes to pink and cream and finally becomes green.
The most commonly grown and popular variety is pieris japonica illustrated above which has varieties such as firecrest and mountain fire. It has been given the award of garden merit agm by the royal horticultural society. Pieris forest flame is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that grows in sunset s climate zones 3b to 9 and 14 to 17. These contrast beautifully with pretty spring flowers.
In spring forest flame has vivid red young leaves that mature to green. In may and june large bunches of white lily of the valley type flowers on large. Collection only i have 2 of these though image and price is of one. In mid to late spring it produces abundant clusters of cream bell shaped flowers that resemble lily of the valley.
Pieris has bright red coloured new growth in the spring which fades to a subtle pink and finally green.