Deutzia Chardonnay Pearls
When the flowers fade it continues to shine with its bright yellow leaves.
Deutzia chardonnay pearls. Specific epithet means slender or graceful. When finished flowering the bright lime yellow foliage provides all season interest and is also deer resistant. It s easy to tuck these diminutive shrubs wherever you could use definition and color in your space. After the flowers fade this shrub still begs attention in the border dressed in her chartreuse leaves.
Chardonnay pearls stays sweetly compact and delightfully rounded in shape. Deutzias can get a bit unkempt in habit if not pruned regularly. In the spring deutzia chardonnay pearls is covered with large white pearl shaped buds that split open revealing star shaped full blown flowers. Deutzia is quite easily multiplied by preparing cuttings from its semi hardened sprigs it is the simplest propagation method.
Growth is strong but compact to create a wonderful small shrub that is equally at home in the shrub border as it is in a perennial one. When to prune deutzia is essential knowledge for succession of flowers. Chardonnay pearls deutzia continues to behave as a well balanced contrast to the season s mellow burgundy reds oranges and yellows for you. Adds color and vibrancy to any garden.
Numerous pearl like buds open to attractive white fragrant flowers in spring. Deutzia chardonnay pearls deutzia is an attractive compact shrub which is adorned in white pearl like buds that explode into a shower of fragrant star shaped flowers in the spring. Chardonnay pearls is a patented plant that is best noted for its lemon lime foliage which remains attractive throughout the growing season. Add season long color to the garden with this easy growing bright beauty.
Once the flowers have faded however chardonnay pearls deutzia remains compelling with with bright yellow foliage through frost. When the flowers have faded it continues to shine with its bright yellow foliage. When to prune deutzia. All deutzia should be pruned immediately after the flowers have finished this will be early mid summer.
Genus name honors johan van der deutz 1743 1788 amateur botanist from amsterdam. Prepare deutzia cuttings at the end of summer on soft wood growth that is wood that is not hard yet nor has grown brown bark but is in the process of hardening. Deutzia chardonnay pearls shrubs add three seasons of color to the garden. It s an easy growing bright colored shrub.
Chardonnay pearls deutzia gracilis duncan uspp 16 098 can 2 640. Deutzia gracilis duncan pp 16 098. Numerous pearl shaped buds open to attractive white fragrant flowers in the spring.