Radiance Abelia Bush – #3 Container

Description

Dwarf, broadleaved evergreen with impressive color, the Radiance Abelia PP 21929 (Abelia grandiflora ‘Radiance’) provides outstanding landscape value! Enjoy fragrant white blooms all summer time long; and wonderfully variegated foliage.

New leaves are green and soft yellow, and they age to silvery-green edged with cream. Part of the Southern Living® Plant Collection, Radiance is a beautiful evergreen with incredible changing foliage that really “pops” against new red stems!

These petite plants stay compact, spreading a bit wider than they are a great size for small space gardens. But you and your Hummingbirds will adore the fragrant white blossoms that appear in the spring and keep returning reliably until frost!

Insect and deer-resistant, they are evergreen in all but the coldest zones rated, where they behave as semi-evergreen in USDA planting zones 6 to 9, growing just 2-3 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide!

Landscape Application:

If your foundation planting has seen better days, jazz them up with these dynamic small shrubs! Rip out and replace old, overgrown evergreens…or extend the bed out a bit for a pretty border of sophisticated Radiance Abelia!

Many homeowners like you use Radiance Abelia as showy, easy-care hedges, and mass plantings to fill in bare ground on slopes! Space them 30 inches apart on center, measuring from the center of one to the center of the next for a colorful garden feature!

You can easily grow them in outside containers for many years! Decorate your courtyard, terrace, or balcony with their near-effortless charm!

Don’t be afraid to include them in mixed borders, as well. They make an eye-catching choice in the mid-layer and bring structure to your design of companion plants. Use these as a mainstay in your Pollinator Garden, or the Rock Garden, or add fragrant flowers to the Cottage Border. Their brilliant foliage will polish up the look and crisp white blooms will also attract hummingbirds and beneficial pollinators!

• Variegated Green u0026amp; Yellow New Growth
• Cream Summer Foliage Edged In Silvery-Green
• Fragrant White Long-Lasting Blooms For Pollinators
• Semi-Evergreen u0026amp; Very Easy To Grow
• Red Stems u0026amp; Great Fall Color
• Low Hedges, Planters, Specimens u0026amp; En Masse Ornamentals!

ProPlantTips for Care:

Radiance Abelia grows well in either full sun or part shade, with at least four hours of sunlight each day. They’ll need well-drained soil and a moderate amount of supplemental water during the first season and during dry weather. Preferring slightly acidic soils and a 3-4 inch deep layer of mulch around the root system. Add life-long support for your landscape investment with symbiotic Nature Hills Root Booster used in the planting hole.

Deer don’t prefer the taste of Abelia, however, if you live in an area with heavy deer pressure, we always recommend using repellent on the day you plant and reapply according to the label directions. It blooms on new wood, so prune to shape up your Abelia each year in early spring. Every few years, remove a few of the thickest, oldest stems at that time to keep your shrub vigorous.

• Full Sun u0026amp; Partial Shade
• Moderate to Low Moisture Needs
• Any Well-Drained Soil
• Prune Late Winter
• Low-Maintenance u0026amp; Deer Resistant

Let your landscape radiate with the Southern Living® Radiance Abelia shrub today! Order enough for your next project and light up the garden with the help of NatureHills.com!