Northern Spice Bush
Northern Spice Bush
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Northern Spice BushÂ
Northern Spice Bush 2-3' (Calycanthus floridus): This shrub is easy and year-round beautifying with a great smell and beautiful flowers in your yard. This deciduous shrub with an acrid-sweet aroma and beautiful leaves would be a nice option for homeowners looking for a drought-tolerant, compact, and adaptable plant to all climates.
Key Features:
Flower smell: It is a late spring to early summer flowering bush with tiny, sweet-spicy, fragrant, reddish brown blooms that are a visual treat in your yard.
Lovely Leaves: Deep green glossy leaves that turn fall tan attract this shrub to the garden all summer and into fall.
Hardy, Low-Feet: The Bush is hardy and well-adapted to all soil types. Once established, it is also drought-tolerant and averse to most insects and diseases.
Miniature Size: With an average height of 2-3 ft., this shrub can be planted in smaller gardens or borders or as a beautiful, fragrant hedge in your garden.
Wildlife Ready: The Bushes will become a pollinator plant for bees and butterflies, and gardeners interested in the wildlife here will love them.
Flowers & Parfums: In the spring and summer, it tastes sweet and a bit of spice. It works beautifully in sensual gardens and pollinator gardens.
Easy and Viable: The shrub tolerates all conditions and is ideal for beginners and expert gardeners. It’s weather-resistant and not very demanding once established.
Leaves are Pretty: The Bushes will leave dark green leaves that brighten in the fall, making your yard beautiful all year.
Naturalist: With its many flowers, the Bushes delight bees, butterflies, and birds, making them a plant for the naturalist in you.
Miniature Garden Use: It’s dwarf—2 or 3 feet tall—perfect for miniature gardens, pots, or an airy border.
Planting & Care Instructions:
Light: Enjoys half to full sun for best flowers and development.
Loam: Can be grown in moist, slightly acidic to neutral loams but will grow on most loams.
Water: Feed it in the first year and water well to encourage growth. The Bush can live under dry conditions after planting, although it can be watered a few times if you are in a dry spell.
Pruning: Minimal pruning is needed. Cut back shortly after flowers for shape or remove dead or decayed wood.
Space: Space 3-4ft apart so they grow out of the way.
Why Use Northern Spice Bush 2-3’?
The Northern Spice Bush 2-3' makes a great accent tree for your yard due to its hot, sweet scent and fall color. Use it as a hedge, specimen, or wildlife-friendly shrub, and you’ll get a plant that’ll look good, smell good, and be lovely in your garden. It’s very low maintenance and adaptable to many landscapes, so it is the perfect plant for any gardener looking for a fragrant and lush garden.
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