23 Clethra Ruby Spice

The two ruby spice are doing well in their challenging location under large spruce trees dry soil with occasional flooding shade except for hot afternoon sun. Clethra alnifolia ruby spice.

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Clethra ruby spice!!!

Clethra anifolia ruby spice is a standout among the summersweet varieties. Clethra alnifolia ruby spice summersweet a truly beautiful shrub with distinctive bright pink bottlebrush like flower spikes delightfully fragrant and long lasting up to six weeks in mid late summer. They are deciduous shrubs of medium stature with rich dark green foliage and flowers with head turning sensuous honey sweet scent in mid to late summer when few other shrubs are flowering. It also provides great fall color with its lustrous dark green leaves turning glowing yellow.

The white clethra grow thick in our woods and turn a clear lovely yellow in the fall. Clethra is a favorite of bees. An easy to grow multiseason shrub you will really enjoy. Ruby spice features rich rose pink blooms that are a first for flowering clethra.

Its fragrant bottlebrush flowers are a darker pink. Its fragrant blooms have the deepest red hue which is enhanced when the plant is in direct sunlight. Ruby spice is most noted for its fragrant rose pink flowers that bloom in late summer. Versatile summersweet is a great flowering shrub that is also effective as a decorative hedge.

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