78+ Summersweet Clethra Vanilla Spice

Clethra alnifolia commonly called summersweet is a deciduous shrub that is native to swampy woodlands wet marshes stream banks and seashores often in sandy soils along the coast from maine to florida and west to texas. This plant is hardy in zones 4 9.

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Summersweet vanilla spice clethra has attractive glossy dark green leaves. Its extra large pure white flowers are very fragrant and act as a magnet for butterflies. The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive. A delightful deer resistant native plant that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

It is a rounded suckering densely branched deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3 6. Zones are based on the lowest average temperature an area is expected to receive during the winter. Full sun 6 hours part sun 4 6 hours full shade up to 4 hours. Yellow fall foliage adds to its appeal.

Vanilla spice summersweet clethra alnifolia. 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. Caleb is a summersweet cultivar that is commonly sold in commerce under the trade name of vanilla spice. Clethra alnifolia caleb vanilla spice summersweet is a compact slowly spreading deciduous shrub boasting bottlebrush spikes of extremely fragrant white flowers which bloom for 4 6 weeks in mid to late summer.

Vivatysons May June 2012 By Johnny Hanna Issuu