Bottlebrush Buckeye

The Bottlebrush Buckeye is a great garden shrub for all those empty spots in the shade beneath large trees. It also makes a great background plant for woodland gardens and along shady paths and driveways. It has large and handsome leaves that turn golden yellow in fall. In late summer it will bloom with striking upright flower spikes up to a foot tall, covered from top to bottom with fluffy white flowers. This plant is rarely grown, although it has won numerous awards for its garden beauty and usefulness, so for something different and worthwhile in your garden, this is the plant to choose.

• Handsome flowering shrub for shady parts of the garden
• Grows well across most of the country
• Large leaves on a dome-shaped shrub
• Tall white flower spikes in late summer
• Wide-spreading in deep shade beneath trees

Shady areas are easy for the Bottlebrush Buckeye to live in, as long as you give these shrubs plenty of water when they are young. It will grow in any soil, but it prefers damper locations in rich soil, so add plenty of organic material when planting and as annual mulch. It will grow all the way from zone 4 to 8, so almost anywhere in the country you can grow this handsome native shrub. It is pest-free and brings drama and a rugged beauty to your garden throughout the year.