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Love Child Sweetspire (Itea) - 3 Gallon Pot

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Love Child Sweetspire (Itea) – 3 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $75.85.Current price is: $53.10.

SKU: D2LSC 208580701 Category: FRAGRANT PLANTS

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Love Child Sweetspire

Itea virginica ‘Bailteaone’ PP31,318

Other Names: Love Child Virginia Sweetspire

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 3-4′

Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 3-3.5′ for solid hedges; 7’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Rounded Mound

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: White

Flower Size: 4-6″ Long, 1″ Wide bottlebrush-like spires

Flowering Period: Spring

Flower Type: 6″ long spire

Fragrant Flowers: Yes!

Foliage Color: Green turning Burgundy Red in fall

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: –

Berry Color: –

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Heavy Shade, Shade, Morning Sun w/Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Afternoon Sun w/Morning Shade, All Day Filtered Sun or Dappled Shade

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay soils when planting), Loam, Sand (amend quick-draining soils for moisture retention), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained to Wet

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0 (Moderately Acid to Neutral)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators

Resistances / Tolerances: Deer, Drought (when established), Insect, Disease, Mildew, Wet Soil, Heat

Description

An easy-to-grow selection of our North American native Virginia Sweetspire, ‘Love Child’ is more compact than the species so is a great fit for smaller garden spaces and even containers. In spring, this one features abundant bottlebrush-like spires of sweetly fragrant white flowers radiating outwards from the 3 to 4 feet tall and wide mound of dense bright green leaves. Butterflies and a variety of other beneficial pollinators are attracted to the sweet scent and will also enjoy browsing the flowers. But the color show doesn’t end with the spring bloom. With the arrival of cooler temperatures in the fall the foliage turns striking shades or burgundy-red. A versatile and extremely low-maintenance shrub for sun or shade and moist soil, and you might be happy to know the deer turn their nose up to it.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a dense rounded mound 3 to 4 feet tall and equally as wide, Love Child Sweetspire is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces and containers or in groupings or as a natural hedge in sunny or shady landscape, flowering shrub and woodland borders where the soil tends to stay consistently moist to wet. Excellent near patios, porches, decks and other outdoor living spaces where the fragrant flowers, butterflies feeding and attractive foliage can be enjoyed from close up. he small size makes it perfect for smaller gardens and foundation plantings. A fine addition to butterfly and hummingbird gardens, fragrance gardens, native plant gardens, cut flower gardens, white or red theme gardens, or sunny or shady woodland gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 3.5 feet apart for solid hedges; 7 feet or more apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

The Love Child Sweetspire is very adaptable and easy-to-grow native in most any moist but well-drained to periodically wet soil in full sun to heavy shade. Also has drought tolerance when established. Very little if any pruning required.

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