(Kostenlos) Winter Mount Airy Fothergilla

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.

Winter mount airy fothergilla. This is a picture i ve had on my computer desktop during the winter. Mount airy fothergilla or fothergilla major 5 to 6 tall and wide dwarf fothergilla. Blooms occur before the foliage and will last for 3 4 weeks. It grows 5 to 6 feet high with an upright form. Blooms usually occur in late april or in may and are quite fragrant. A medium sized deciduous shrub with a bushy rounded habit and average growth rate it s suitable for any garden with acidic soil. The mount airy fothergilla is a slow growing plant with rounded dark blue green leaves free of disease problems the foliage resembles witchhazel.

The mount airy dwarf fothergilla shrub has an upright growth habit and reaches 3 to 5 feet in height with a similar width. 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. Mount airy was selected for reliable and intense fall color. A beautiful addition to the landscape in semi shaded mixed shrub borders or as a background shrub or hedge plant. Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil. Mount airy is a cultivar of this hybrid. The look of the branches especially against the snow is so.

Because of the open airy growing habit of fothergilla you get to see a beautifully shaped twiggy shrub during the winter months. The rounded leathery leaves open blue green and turn brilliant red red orange and finally. Terminal bottlebrush like spikes 1 3 long of tiny fragrant. A deciduous shrub with deep blue green leaves that have spectacular range of fall color. Showy honey scented bottlebrush like white flowers appear before foliage emerges in spring. To promote next season s flowering any pruning should be done soon after blooming. 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.

Mount airy fothergilla fothergilla x intermedia mount airy fothergilla x intermedia is a hybrid of dwarf fothergilla fothergilla gardenii and large fothergilla fothergilla major. Airy arboretum in cincinnati ohio. Mount airy fothergilla growing and maintenance tips this plant is best grown in a slightly acidic peaty soil in sun or light shade. Mount airy is a hybrid fothergilla cultivar that was discovered by plantsman michael a. Fothergilla mount airy with its bottle brush flowers and brilliant autumn display fothergilla intermedia mount airy is probably the best of the hybrid fothergillas.