Scarletta Fetterbush – Leucothoe Fontanesiana ‘Zeblid’ – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-8b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Shrub

Flower Color:  White

Flower Size:  Small 

Flowering Period:  Spring, Early Summer

Flower Type:  Single in elongated clusters

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green, Red in spring, Bronze in fall

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries/ Pods:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Heat, Insect

Noted for its dwarf mounding habit and brilliant year round foliage, Scarletta Fetterbush is a beautiful and natural woodland plant that will set your shade garden on fire! In spring, striking scarlet-purple new leaves emerge that turn to a deep lustrous green in summer finally turning bronze-red during fall and winter. This beauty typically grows to only 2 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide in 10 years, making it a perfect choice for smaller garden spaces and containers. An excellent companion to azaleas, rhododendrons, aucubas, mahonias, hostas, dogwoods, anise and other shade-loving plants. 

Growing in a dense mound to 1.5 to 2 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide, Scarletta Leucothoe is deal for use as specimen in smaller landscape spaces or in groupings, as a border or in mass plantings in large, shaded to partly shaded areas. Also excellent for pots, planters and other containers. A fine addition to woodland gardens and borders and looks especially nice around boulders and garden ponds. 

Suggested Spacing:  2 to 3 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.