Fothergilla Mount Airy Fall
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Fothergilla mount airy fall. A beautiful addition to the landscape in semi shaded mixed shrub borders or as a background shrub or hedge plant. Dirr at the mt. This is a native shrub to the eastern us. He found it better than the species fothergilla major in all characteristics. Partial to full sun. Blooms occur before the foliage and will last for 3 4 weeks. Dwarf fothergilla is a showy deciduous shrub that has great fall color and interesting fragrant flowers.
This is a vigorous deciduous shrub that grows 4 5 tall and is noted for its profuse spring flowering excellent summer foliage excellent fall color and consistently upright habit. In spring this shrub is tipped with white flowers 1 to 3 inches long that have the appearance of little bottlebrushes which is why bottlebrush is another common name for the shrub. Airy arboretum in cincinnati ohio. The bottlebrush flowers open and then the blue green foliage begin to unfold on this native flowering shrub. Mt airy was selected by michael dirr. Blue shadow fothergilla fothergilla x intermedia blue shadow. It prefers acidic soils with high organic matter that are consistently moist but with.
Showy honey scented bottlebrush like white flowers appear before foliage emerges in spring. Mount airy is a hybrid fothergilla cultivar that was discovered by plantsman michael a. But when it can be planted among other woodland plants it will bring. The mount airy dwarf fothergilla shrub has an upright growth habit and reaches 3 to 5 feet in height with a similar width. Fothergilla gardenii mount airy fothergilla gardenii x major mount airy fothergilla major mount airy phonetic spelling foth er gil lah description. A sport of mt airy blue green foliage rounded habit 5 to 6 feet high orange red yellow fall color. Outstanding fall color and improved flowering are just two of its strengths.
The colorful fall foliage is second only to the honey scented spring blooms of the mount airy fothergilla. The mount airy fothergilla is a slow growing plant with rounded dark blue green leaves free of disease problems the foliage resembles witchhazel. Fothergilla major mount airy is slower growing than many other flowering shrub choices. A deciduous shrub with deep blue green leaves that have spectacular range of fall color. Blooms usually occur in late april or in may and are quite fragrant.