Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Scarletta Fetterbush is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. 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.

Ornamental Qualities

Scarletta Fetterbush features showy racemes of fragrant white bell-shaped flowers hanging below the branches from late spring to early summer. It has attractive dark green evergreen foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The glossy pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn coppery-bronze in the fall | which persists throughout the winter. The red stems can be quite attractive.

Planting and Growing

Scarletta Fetterbush will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 4 feet. It has a low canopy. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type | but has a definite preference for acidic soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selection of a native North American species.

Plant Facts

Prefers partial shade to shade

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 24"Hx4'W

Flowers are white with strong fragrance

Flowers from late spring to early summer

Fall color copper

Zone 4b

Likes well drained soil