Plant: Paisley Pup® Doghobble

Doghobble · Leucothoe fontanesiana 'SMNLFGRV'

$54.00

Size: 3 gal

Light

Full Shade

Bloom

SpringSummer

Mature size

4 ft tall5 ft wide

More about this plant

Paisley Pup is a compact broadleaf evergreen doghobble growing 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide with an upright, low branching, arching habit. Its variegated pink, green, cream and bronze foliage is the main show, and tiny fragrant white bell shaped blooms are strung along the arching branches in spring and summer. It wants part shade, acidic soil rich in organic matter and average water, and it tolerates heavy shade and holds slopes against erosion. Deer resistant and disease resistant, it works as a border, edging, container, groundcover or mass planting at a woodland edge. All parts are poisonous if eaten.

Full Shade
Grows to 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide
Blooms in spring, summer
Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
Evergreen foliage
Native plant

Plant description

Paisley Pup is a compact broadleaf evergreen doghobble growing 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide with an upright, low branching, arching habit. Its variegated pink, green, cream and bronze foliage is the main show, and tiny fragrant white bell shaped blooms are strung along the arching branches in spring and summer. It wants part shade, acidic soil rich in organic matter and average water, and it tolerates heavy shade and holds slopes against erosion. Deer resistant and disease resistant, it works as a border, edging, container, groundcover or mass planting at a woodland edge. All parts are poisonous if eaten.

Flowers: Tiny fragrant white bell to urn shaped flowers strung in drooping racemes from the leaf axils along the arching branches.
Foliage: Glossy evergreen lanceolate leaves with serrate margins tapering to a long point, variegated in pink, green, cream and bronze, with red new growth.
Light: Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
Pruning: Pruning is not necessary or recommended.
Native range: Southeastern United States