Plant: Legend of the Small® Bottlebrush
Fothergilla · Fothergilla gardenii 'Legend of the Small'
Size: 2 gal
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More about this plant
A dwarf native fothergilla just 2 to 2.5 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide, spaced 24 to 36 inches apart, with an upright habit and leathery blue green leaves that turn a blend of autumn colors. Creamy white bottlebrush flowers 1 to 2 inches long with a sweet honey fragrance open before the leaves in April and May and draw bees. It grows in sun to part sun in well drained acidic soil, tolerates compaction and wet soil, resists deer, and works as an edging or border plant, a low hedge, a mass planting under trees or a small specimen.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 2.5 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-9b
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A dwarf native fothergilla just 2 to 2.5 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide, spaced 24 to 36 inches apart, with an upright habit and leathery blue green leaves that turn a blend of autumn colors. Creamy white bottlebrush flowers 1 to 2 inches long with a sweet honey fragrance open before the leaves in April and May and draw bees. It grows in sun to part sun in well drained acidic soil, tolerates compaction and wet soil, resists deer, and works as an edging or border plant, a low hedge, a mass planting under trees or a small specimen.
- Flowers
- Creamy white bottlebrush flowers 1 to 2 inches long with a sweet honey fragrance, appearing before the leaves in April and May.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, ovate, hairy and leathery blue green to dark green leaves 1 to 2.5 inches long with a slightly toothed upper margin, smooth on the lower half, and a quilted bumpy appearance.
- Fruit
- An ornamentally insignificant two seeded beaked capsule maturing in September and October and ejecting black seeds.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Coastal plains of the southern United States
