20+ Dwarf Bottlebrush Buckeye

Bottlebrush buckeye the morton arboretum.

Dwarf bottlebrush buckeye. Autumn leaves turn a nice golden yellow before falling off. You need to pinch the stem tips and thin the branches down near the trunk. Typical bottlebrush flowers are 15 long puffy creamy white spikes that swallowtails swarm to. Bottlebrush buckeye needs moist well drained soil and partial to full shade. Dense mounding form with large leaves creates a wonderful presence as a foundation shrub or massed under trees. Flowers give way to glossy inedible nuts buckeyes. One of the showiest flowering shrubs for the dappled shade garden.

Blood red bottlebrush like flower spikes cover this dwarf evergreen shrub from spring into summer. People often expect the prettiest plants to be a pain to grow but that certainly isn t the case here. A fine addition to north american native plant gardens shade gardens woodland gardens and white theme gardens. Bottlebrush buckeye aesculus parviflora. This is a dwarf version of our stunning and large bottlebrush buckeye. Grows in a dense mounded multi stemmed shrub up to 8 12ft. It is a dense mounded suckering deciduous multi stemmed shrub which typically grows 6 12 tall.

Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide the bottlebrush buckeye is ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings or mass plantings in shady flowering shrub and woodland borders. This will help in air circulation. Commonly called bottlebrush buckeye is noted for being one of the best summer flowering shrubs for shade areas. Foliage turns yellow in the fall. Bottlebrush buckeye is a handsome shrub that has memorable long fluffy white flower clusters in early july. It is useful as an understory planting in woodland gardens as a specimen plant or in a shrub border. In warm temperate regions it will continue to bloom intermittently throughout the year.

A densely branched habit with blue green leaves that have a citrus scent when crushed. The plant is ideal for container gardens hedges mixed border plants rock gardens and near house walls. Pruning dwarf bottlebrush will help in promoting branching. This one matures to around 4 5 tall and at least as wide and flowers earlier in late spring and early summer. The versatile compact size is perfect for today s smaller gardens. Bottlebrush buckeye dwarf buckeye dwarf horse chestnut recipient of the prestigious award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society the theodore klein plant award. Also known as aesculus macrostachya.