Plant: El Niño® Desert Orchid
Chitalpa · Chitalpa 'NCXC1'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A hybrid of desert willow and catalpa forming a mounded deciduous plant 10 to 15 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet wide, covered from late spring or early summer through summer with fragrant orchid like purple blooms. It wants full sun and average, well drained soil, needs only shaping in early spring as new growth emerges, and resists deer. It works as a border plant, in mass plantings or as the thriller in a large container.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 15 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6a-9b
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A hybrid of desert willow and catalpa forming a mounded deciduous plant 10 to 15 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet wide, covered from late spring or early summer through summer with fragrant orchid like purple blooms. It wants full sun and average, well drained soil, needs only shaping in early spring as new growth emerges, and resists deer. It works as a border plant, in mass plantings or as the thriller in a large container.
- Pruning
- Prune to shape in early spring, just as the new growth is beginning to emerge.
