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Rainbow Leucothoe (Drooping Fetterbush) - Leucothoe Fontanesiana - 5 Gallon Pot

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Rainbow Leucothoe (Drooping Fetterbush) – Leucothoe Fontanesiana – 5 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $83.85.Current price is: $58.70.

SKU: D2LSC 5252869805 Category: NATIVE PLANTS

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Rainbow Leucothoe

Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Rainbow’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub

Height at Maturity: 3-4′

Width at Maturity: 5′

Spacing: 3-4′ for solid hedges; 6’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding, Arching, Bushy

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: White

Flower Size: Small

Flowering Period: Spring, Early Summer

Flower Type: Single in elongated clusters

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Deep Green, White, Shades of Pink, Bronze, Cream, Shades of Burgundy, Fushia, Red

Fragrant Foliage: Yes

Berries/ Pods: NA

Sun Needs: Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered or Dappled Sun, Shade or Mostly Shade

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist, Moderately Drained

Soil pH: 4.5 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Insect

Description

A year round color factory, the Rainbow Leucothoe is one of the most dependable and colorful evergreen broadleaf shrubs for the shade garden. In spring, beautiful new leaves are a wonderful mix of pinks, cream, and bronze while the mature foliage below is deep green with white variegation. The leaves turn shades of bronze, burgundy, and red in winter. Drooping elongated clusters of small bell shaped white flowers appear in spring along the gracefully arching branches.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a mound to 4 feet tall and 5 feet wide, the Rainbow Leucothoe is useful in the landscape as a specimen, in groupings, or as a natural hedge in shady to partly shady areas of the garden. A fine addition to woodland gardens and borders and looks especially nice around boulders and garden ponds.

Suggested Spacing: 4 feet apart for solid hedges; 6 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Leucothoe is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Rainbow Leucothoe is very easy to grow in organically rich, moist but well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. For best appearance and performance we recommend some shade in the afternoon. Maintenance is minimal except for a snipping here or there of a stray branch. That said, plants can be clipped to control height or to maintain as a hedge.

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Arrived promptly and was healthy, big, and beautiful and ready to plant.—————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy your purchase for years to come! Thanks for the awesome review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG