28+ Summersweet Clethra Ruby Spice

Some other tidbits on this shrub. They attract butterflies bees and other insects in late summer and early fall.

W W Nursery Landscaping July 2015

Summersweet clethra ruby spice

Sweet pepper bush ruby spice sweet pepperbush ruby spice summer sweet ruby spice summersweet ruby spice. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Ruby spice grows to about 4 to 6 feet tall and almost as wide making this shrub suitable for a.

A super hardy adaptable and very easy to grow north american native flowering shrub ruby spice summersweet also called sweet pepperbush is the darkest pink of all of varieties we ve ever seen. Here in zone 6 the bottle brush like blooms usually appear in early july. Ruby spice summersweet is a multi stemmed deciduous shrub with a shapely oval form.

It is a rounded suckering densely branched deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3 6. Mine is about 5 x 3 in year four. We like the common name summersweet best because it describes the deliciously fragrant flowers that smell like sweet cotton candy not pepper.

Ruby spice features rich rose pink blooms that are a first for flowering clethra. Its fragrant bottlebrush flowers are a darker pink. 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.

Native all along the east coast and found abundantly along forest margins and near creeks and ponds summersweet also known as pepperbush clethra alnifolia is named for its long white spikes of spice scented flowers that appear in july and august. Clethra alnifolia commonly called summersweet is a deciduous shrub that is native to swampy woodlands wet marshes stream banks and seashores often in sandy soils along the coast from maine to florida and west to texas. Clethra alnifolia ruby spice.

The Phytophactor August 2010