Catalog Description
Airy clusters of deep pink buds that open to pastel pink flowers streaked with white turning to solid white. Attractive, deep red new growth maturing to dark green. Compact form excellent as a foundation planting or in groups. Partial sun. Evergreen. Slow grower to 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. Cutting grown. |
Design Ideas
This Pieris offers true rosy pink flowers that are a showstopper at close range. On homesites, looks beautiful under a high canopy of old trees. Perfect on the north and east exposures as foundation planting. Large enough to use for background near water gardens or in small Asian-inspired compositions. A perfect candidate for wild woodland gardens in the damp Pacific Northwest.
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Companion Plants
This showy flowering pieris is perfect to combine with big beautiful shrubs such as Ignatius Sargent Rhododendron, (Rhododendron x `Ignatius Sargent`), red Yuletide Sasanqua Camellia, (Camellia sasanqua `Yuletide`), and the lovely deciduous Leonard Messel Magnolia, (Magnolia x loebneri `Leondard Messel`).
Always welcome with shade loving perennials such as Giant Lilyturf, (Liriope gigantea) or the equally as large Variegated Plantain Lily, (Hosta fluctuans `Variegated`).
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Average Landscape Size
Slow grower to 3 to 5 ft. tall and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Beautiful, airy clusters of pink flowers highlight this evergreen shrub. Attractive, bronzy-tint to new growth maturing to dark green. Compact form excellent as a foundation planting or in groups. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Provide well drained soil, rich in organic matter. Feed with an acid fertilizer after bloom. Keep roots cool with a thick layer of mulch. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Slow Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Round |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 8 (>90 to 120 days) |
| Low: | 4 (>14 to 30 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 8 (10 to 20 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 6 (-10 to 0 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Partial sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Urn-shaped flowers grow in drooping clusters, opens pink
| Flower Color |
| White |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Spring. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring after flowering |
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Attributes
Border Plant
Compact Habit
Foliage Poisonous
Oriental Garden
Patio Container Plant
Showy Flowers
Spring Flowering
Winter Flowering
Year-round Interest
Woodland Garden |
Foliage
Glossy, toothed
| Foliage Shape | Elliptic |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Red |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Red |
| Spring foliage | Red |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
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Plant Lore
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Plant History
This variety is listed among the Pieris japonica cultivars as the Taiwanensis group introduced in 1918. They differ slightly from the species in terms of foliage, with more bronze tint, and in some older references they were separated into P. taiwanensis. This is a genus of Ericaceous flowering plants from Asia and North America, classified in 1834 by David Don, 1799-1841. He named the genus after the Pierides or nine muses of mythology The parent species is P. japonica, introduced in 1784 as Andromeda japonica. The plant was first collected and described by noted physician Carl Thunberg while working for the Dutch East India Company in Japan. Plants are native to eastern China and this group from the island of Taiwan. It was introduced under P. japonica to the west in England by 1870 as the most cold hardy of all species. |
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