White Bottlebrush Buckeye - Aesculus Parviflora - 5 Gallon Pot

White Bottlebrush Buckeye - Aesculus Parviflora - 5 Gallon Pot

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 White Bottlebrush Buckeye - Aesculus Parviflora - 5 Gallon Pot

White Bottlebrush Buckeye - Aesculus Parviflora - 5 Gallon Pot

$99.99
Sale price  $99.99 Regular price  $143.00
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Description

White Bottlebrush Buckeye
Aesculus parviflora


Plant Details


USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b  Find Your Zone 

Plant Type:  Deciduous Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity:  8-10'
Width at Maturity:  10-15'
Spacing:  8' for hedges, 18'+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form:  Bushy, Mounding
Growth Rate:  Moderate to Fast

Flower Color:  White
Flower Size:  2-3" long packed on 12" long, erect, cylindrical panicles
Flowering Period:  Early to Mid-Spring
Flower Type:  Panicles, Bottle brush-like
Fragrant Flowers:  No
Foliage Color:  Green
Fragrant Foliage:  No
Fruit/Nuts:  Yes, Inedible
Nut Color:  Green

Sun Needs:  Shade, Part Shade, Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade, Dappled Shade
Water Needs:  Average
Soil Type:  Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage:  Moist but Well Drained
Soil pH:  5.0 - 8.0 (Acid to Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care:  Very Low
Attracts:  Visual Attention
Resistances:  Cold, Deer - more info, Disease, Erosion, Insect, Rabbit


Description

One of the showiest and easy-to-grow summer flowering shrubs for shady areas, the White Bottlebrush Buckeye forms a large mound of dense foliage and an abundance of eye-catching, cylindrical, 12 inch long spikes of tubular white flowers with red anthers and pink filaments protruding from inside. The summer bloom is truly spectacular! The handsome deep green palmate leaves turn a pleasing yellow in fall. This North American native is excellent addition the the shade or woodland garden and shady flowering shrub borders. 


Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide, the Bottlebrush Buckeye is ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings or mass plantings in shady flowering shrub and woodland borders. A fine addition to North American native plant gardens, shade gardens, woodland gardens and white theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  8 feet apart for solid borders;  18 feet apart for space between plants


Growing Preferences

The Bottlebrush Buckeye is very easy to grow and virtually maintenance free when planted right and in the right spot. It grows well in most any consistently moist but well drained soil of average to high fertility and shade or part shade. Morning sun is okay but prefers shade or dappled shade in the afternoon. Young plants prefer consistently moist soil. mature plants will tolerate short periods of drought.

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