24+ Winter Mount Airy Fothergilla

Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil.

Winter mount airy fothergilla. Genus fothergilla are rounded deciduous shrubs with broadly ovate leaves often colouring well in autumn and small catkin like spikes of white flowers in spring details mount airy is a rounded deciduous shrub to 1 8m with fragrant creamy white bottlebrush flowers in late spring. Blooms usually occur in late april or in may and are quite fragrant. The rounded leathery leaves open blue green and turn brilliant red red orange and finally. Mount airy was selected for reliable and intense fall color. Airy arboretum in cincinnati ohio. Mount airy is a cultivar of this hybrid. This is a picture i ve had on my computer desktop during the winter.

A beautiful addition to the landscape in semi shaded mixed shrub borders or as a background shrub or hedge plant. The look of the branches especially against the snow is so. Showy honey scented bottlebrush like white flowers appear before foliage emerges in spring. 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. To keep colonies under control suckers can be removed any time of the year. 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. A medium sized deciduous shrub with a bushy rounded habit and average growth rate it s suitable for any garden with acidic soil.

Mount airy fothergilla fothergilla x intermedia mount airy fothergilla x intermedia is a hybrid of dwarf fothergilla fothergilla gardenii and large fothergilla fothergilla major. Mount airy is a hybrid fothergilla cultivar that was discovered by plantsman michael a. Mount airy fothergilla or fothergilla major 5 to 6 tall and wide dwarf fothergilla. To promote next season s flowering any pruning should be done soon after blooming. Dirr at the mt. Blooms occur before the foliage and will last for 3 4 weeks. It grows 5 to 6 feet high with an upright form.

Mount airy fothergilla growing and maintenance tips this plant is best grown in a slightly acidic peaty soil in sun or light shade. Fothergilla mount airy with its bottle brush flowers and brilliant autumn display fothergilla intermedia mount airy is probably the best of the hybrid fothergillas. Terminal bottlebrush like spikes 1 3 long of tiny fragrant. The mount airy dwarf fothergilla shrub has an upright growth habit and reaches 3 to 5 feet in height with a similar width. Mount airy fothergilla is a beautiful and very easy to grow north american native flowering shrub that produces loads of honey scented pure white bottlebrush like flower spikes at the ends of almost every branch in spring.