65+ Summersweet Clethra Ruby Spice

Sweet pepper bush ruby spice sweet pepperbush ruby spice summer sweet ruby spice summersweet ruby spice. It is a rounded suckering densely branched deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3 6.

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Summersweet clethra ruby spice!!!

Its fragrant bottlebrush flowers are a darker pink. Some other tidbits on this shrub. Ruby spice features rich rose pink blooms that are a first for flowering clethra. Mine is about 5 x 3 in year four.

Compact habit makes this a good choice for small gardens in shrub borders and mixed into perennial borders. Ruby spice summersweet is a multi stemmed deciduous shrub with a shapely oval form. A truly beautiful shrub with distinctive bright pink bottlebrush like flower spikes delightfully fragrant and long lasting up to six weeks in mid late summer. Survives in zones 4 8.

They attract butterflies bees and other insects in late summer and early fall. 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. Clethra alnifolia ruby spice. We like the common name summersweet best because it describes the deliciously fragrant flowers that smell like sweet cotton candy not pepper.

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