21+ Hedge Calycanthus Aphrodite

Sweetshrub aphrodite is an amazing new super fragrant calycanthus. 5 ft 6 ft bloom size.

Confessions Of A Plant Geek July 2017

Hedge calycanthus aphrodite

5 9 bloom start to end. You ve found it in aphrodite calycanthus. The scent has been described as a combination of pineapple banana and strawberry the large bright red magnolia like flowers start early and rebloom throughout the summer.

Features very fragrant brown to reddish brown flowers 2 across which bloom at the ends of short branchlets in may. It displays bright red magnolia like flowers with a fragrant sweet apple like scent. Genus calycanthus are deciduous shrubs with simple aromatic leaves and solitary fragrant flowers in summer details aphrodite is a multi stemmed deciduous shrub to 3m high with oval to oblong glossy green leaves that turn yellow in autumn.

It reblooms and has nice glossy foliage too. Calycanthus aphrodite common name sweetshrub a new improved reblooming sweetshrub with classic sweet fragrance. Early summer early fall habit.

Sweetshrub is ideal for planting close to the house near a window or entryway where the fragrance may drift indoors. They start in early summer and continue through the season in cooler areas like our west michigan trial gardne they bloom all summer long. Aphrodite sweetshrub calycanthus hybrid is one of those plants that once you ve seen it you must have it.

Chinensis x occidentalis variety. 7 ft plant width. 3 in 4 in additional characteristics.

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