Hello! I
hope you’re all doing well.
I like to
start off with the old saying “In like a lion, out like a lamb” this saying has
been passed down through the centuries for the month of March.
This mean
March is a month of change in the seasons, weather and a change in your
gardens.
This month
straddles the end of winter and beginning of spring.
You can probably
see some of your perennials poking up.
I went for a
walk around my gardens and saw some coming up. I love that feeling when you see
them pop up after a long winter with not a lot of color showing.
The shrub I
would like to talk about is a Fothergilla, there are many kinds. I’m going to
focus on Mt. Airy Fothergilla, a very nice dwarf shrub.
Mt. Airy gets
3-5’ and 3-4’ wide it’s a mounded plant with dark green leaves. The bloom time
of this shrub is April to May it is tipped with white flowers (1 to 3 inches
long). This shrub can be planted in full sun to part shade. It likes well-drained soil. It is a low maintenance shrub and turns
excellent shades of yellow, orange and red-purple in fall.
Fothergilla ‘Mount
Airy' was discovered by plantsman Michael A. Dirr at the Mt. Airy Arboretum in
Cincinnati, Ohio.