Pieris Forest Flame Tree
This pieris prefers acidic fertile and moist well drained soil and a sunny or partly shaded sheltered position.
Pieris forest flame tree. Awarded and rhs agm for its outstanding garden performance pieris forest flame is a well loved variety and often thought to be one of the best. In may and june large bunches of white lily of the valley type flowers on large. Keep an eye out also for pieris flaming silver which developed as a sport or mutation of forest flame and has a very attractive silver margin to the leaves producing a good red display of new. Pieris has bright red coloured new growth in the spring which fades to a subtle pink and finally green. Pieris forest flame provides a burst of bright red new leaves in spring which gradually mature to pink cream and then green. Forest flame forest flame is an evergreen shrub with green foliage that starts off red changes to pink and cream and finally becomes green. It produces narrow oval.
It has been given the award of garden merit agm by the royal horticultural society. Pieris forest flame lily of the valley shrub very pretty and hardy. Pieris forest flame pieris japonica forest flame is well known for its foliage and flowers and native to the mountain thickets of eastern china taiwan and japan. These contrast beautifully with pretty spring flowers. The most commonly grown and popular variety is pieris japonica illustrated above which has varieties such as firecrest and mountain fire. Collection only i have 2 of these though image and price is of one. Pieris forest flame is.
Pieris is an attractive and easy to grow showy spring shrub. In spring forest flame has vivid red young leaves that mature to green. Pieris forest flame is a large evergreen upright and frost hardy shrub with glossy leaves that are red when young turning pink creamy white and then dark green. Pieris forest flame is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that grows in sunset s climate zones 3b to 9 and 14 to 17. In mid to late spring it produces abundant clusters of cream bell shaped flowers that resemble lily of the valley. Young spring leaves are bright red fading through coral pink and cream before reaching their final shade of dark green. Panicles of small cream flowers are produced in spring.