Fothergilla, Dwarf Fothergilla, Mount Airy Bottlebrush, Witch Alder 'Mt. Airy'

This is the cultivar that put Fothergilla on our radar. It's a hybrid (F. x intermedia) that's more adaptable than F. gardenii and a more...Read More manageable size than F. major, and it's much more easily propagated by cuttings than either.

Superb!

For a great article about Fothergilla: http://www.rickdarke.com/Fothergilla.pdf

This is the most common cultivar grown and sold in southeast Pennsylvania, originally discovered in Mount Airy, Ohio. The straight specie...Read Mores usually is smaller of being about 3 to 4 ft high, but not always, while this cultivar is about 5 to 6 ft high. It is somewhat common in landscapes where people spend more money and is loved by landscape architects. It is a high quality neat, clean plant with handsome foliage that develops a good yellow to orange to red fall color. It bears fragrant, fuzzy, bottlebrush erect flower clusters in late April and early May in se PA.

We had a drought last year and my fothergilla survived just fine without additional watering, even tho some of the other shrubs died back...Read More and it was planted in full sun. Nice spring flowers but not much scent. The plant is still young, tho.

Bought one at a high-end nursery last year. It was extremely fragrant last year (anise/honey). Bloomed nicely this Spring, but hardly n...Read Moreoticed any fragrance at all. It's planted in front of my place, next to the house in full sun...hot afternoon sun in the summer. Very good, well-prepared soil. I don't keep it especially moist, but it seems quite healthy otherwise. Any clues about frangance in this plant?