94+ Caryopteris Dark Knight Leaves

Choose a well drained location in full sun. Its modest size makes it very useful in smaller yards.

Gratuit Blue Mist Shrub Caryopteris Clandonensis Worcester Gold

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The flowers give caryopteris it s common name of blue mist. Dark knight blue mist spirea caryopteris clandonensis blooms with a profusion of dark blue flowers in late summer when few other shrubs are flowering. Place plants at least 20 to 32 inches 50 to 80 cm apart. Have just purchased caryopteris dark knight and put it in a bed next to pee gee hydrangea.

Dark knight features a profuse shrub covering bloom of fragrant deep bluish purple flowers in terminal and axillary clusters cymes from late summer into fall. Extremely attractive to butterflies. The combination of the dark knight blue flowers against the white of the hydrangea is a lovely fresh change from the usual reds and yellows of most late summer flowers. It is a plant that execrates excessively rich soil and will respond by producing leaves excessively foregoing flowers altogether.

Plants form a bushy upright mound of bright green leaves the fragrant dark blue flowers forming on new wood in late summer and fall. Short narrow leaves that resemble a willow s are usually a silvery gray. A full sun lover this plant is easily grown in average medium moisture well drained soils. Yellow and variegated varieties are also available.

Avoir Gardening Through A Lens 2012