Scarlet Beauty Virginia Sweetspire
This plant has some cultivated varieties.
Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire. The flowers are also attractive to butterflies. Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire is a dense spreading deciduous shrub with a shapely form and gracefully arching branches. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 4 feet.
Itea virginica morton was selected in 1999 by. Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire is cultivated for its summer bloom beautiful red fall foliage and shade and moist soil adaptability. Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire is a dense spreading deciduous shrub with a shapely form and gracefully arching branches. Grown for the long drooping clusters of white fragrant flowers in spring and the kaleidoscope of orange red yellow fall color.
Plant has displayed good resistance to chlorosis. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire upright growing sweetspire with white flowers preceding red orange and yellow fall color. The white flowers are densely borne on droopy 3 long inflorescences that are produced from mid june to early july when few other shrubs are in bloom.
Scarlet beauty virginia sweetspire. Itea virginica morton virginia sweetspire is an attractive shrub native to the southeastern united states including southern illinois. Virginia sweetspire 3 pot 18 tray scarlet beauty was selected in 1999 by kris bachtell of the morton arboretum lisle illinois from a plant that has been in the arboretum s collection since the late 1950s. Scarlet beauty sweetspire is a new sweetspire shrub that blooms in the summer and has colorful fall foliage.
It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn t necessarily. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Less dieback than henry s garnet and little henry. The flowers have a faint but pleasing fragrance.