Bottlebrush Buckeye Plant
Squirrels and chipmunks love the protein rich nuts that ripen in the fall.
Bottlebrush buckeye plant. Flowers give way to glossy inedible nuts buckeyes. Bottlebrush buckeye needs moist well drained soil and partial to full shade. Years after i found my original plant chicago area nurseryman roy klehm learned that i loved aesculus and recommended the later blooming variety called rogers a selection from a. Also known as aesculus macrostachya.
On may 17 2013 plant it from valparaiso in wrote. Dense mounding form with large leaves creates a wonderful presence as a foundation shrub or massed under trees. United states dc washington usda ars national arboretum. One of the showiest flowering shrubs for the dappled shade garden.
You can decide on a site. People often expect the prettiest plants to be a pain to grow but that certainly isn t the case here. Bottlebrush buckeye needs moist well drained soil and partial to full shade. Serotina it s a slightly larger shrub with very large flower stems about 30 inches long photo farther down the page that blooms a couple of weeks.
Bottlebrush buckeye the morton arboretum. It is useful as an understory planting in woodland gardens as a specimen plant or in a shrub border. It is a dense mounded suckering deciduous multi stemmed shrub which typically grows 6 12 tall. Bottlebrush buckeye thrives in light shade but it also does well in full sun as long as it is well mulched and plenty of moisture is provided.
Aesculus parviflora the bottlebrush buckeye is a species of suckering deciduous shrub in the sapindaceae family. Usda nrcs national plant data center npdc. Rarely eaten by deer. About a week to 10 days before planting you should add aged manure and a compost layer that is 2 to 4 inches thick.
Commonly called bottlebrush buckeye is noted for being one of the best summer flowering shrubs for shade areas. Bottlebrush buckeye is a handsome shrub that has memorable long fluffy white flower clusters in early july. The species is native to the southeastern united states where it is found primarily in alabama and georgia with a disjunct population in south carolina along the savannah river. Foliage turns yellow in the fall.
It has many upright slender branches that produce a mass of saucer sized compound leaves with five to seven elongate leaflets emerging individually from a 4 inch long petiole. Bottlebrush buckeye is a deciduous stoloniferous shrub that typically grows about 8 feet tall and twice as wide but given enough time can get even bigger. You should prepare an.