It is a beautiful plant. Distinct blue foliage which looks great against green foliage plants. The winter color wasn’t spectacular bu...Read Moret it could have been b/c we had a warm autumn in 2021 in my area. The spring flowers are like white pom poms. Foliage appears afterwards. Great plant.
The foliage is a vivid icy blue green, unlike the more subtle coloring of ‘Mount Airy.’ The blue color is equal to and perhaps better...Read More than ‘Blue Mist.’ ‘Blue Shadow’ colors vividly in the fall and produces white honey-scented flowers in the spring. It will slowly form a 4-foot mounded bush. habit of in spring. Fothergilla root easily, but this is a patented cultivar. Don’t let it dry out and it like full sun, but it can take a lot of shade.
Few plants have such vividly glaucous blue foliage. Unlike F. 'Blue Mist', it colors vividly in the fall. Easy to root like its parent 'M...Read Moret. Airy'.
This is a hybrid F. x intermedia and not F. gardenii, and has the greater adaptability of the hybrid.
I have two of these planted on opposite sides of my paperbark maple and it's a great combination. The foliage is beautiful in the summer ...Read Moreand fall. They have grown easily for me and filled out faster than Mt. Airy. It's been a difficult plant to find, I had never seen one in a garden center or nursery until this year. This is one of my favorite shrubs but once in a while I have to cut off reversion shoots from the base.
Leaves are glaucous blue-green, water beads beautifully after a rain. Prefers moist soil. Slow growing to 5ft. in 10 years. White flow...Read Moreers appear in mid spring and have a mild honey like scent. Fall foliage is superb yellow to bright orange-red and lasting late into fall.
It is a beautiful plant. Distinct blue foliage which looks great against green foliage plants. The winter color wasn’t spectacular bu...Read More
The foliage is a vivid icy blue green, unlike the more subtle coloring of ‘Mount Airy.’ The blue color is equal to and perhaps better...Read More
Few plants have such vividly glaucous blue foliage. Unlike F. 'Blue Mist', it colors vividly in the fall. Easy to root like its parent 'M...Read More
I have two of these planted on opposite sides of my paperbark maple and it's a great combination. The foliage is beautiful in the summer ...Read More
Leaves are glaucous blue-green, water beads beautifully after a rain. Prefers moist soil. Slow growing to 5ft. in 10 years. White flow...Read More
This plant is a branch sport of Mike Dirr's strong growing selection Fothergilla major ‘Mount Airy.’