Dark Knight Caryopteris Longwood Blue

Its tidy upright growth habit and profusion of flowering spikes make it an essential part of the summer landscape.

[1001] Dark Knight Caryopteris Longwood Blue Liste. Caryopteris clandonensis dark knight blue mist shrub bluebeard blue mist shrub is aptly named as its gray green foliage is shrouded in a cloud of blue from mid to late summer. The flowers give caryopteris it s common name of blue mist. Caryopteris x clandonensis dark knight bluebeard is a compact deciduous shrub of rounded habit with a profusion of fragrant deep blue purple flowers in late summer and early fall.

Attractive to butterflies bees and other beneficial insects they contrast nicely with the dense foliage of dark green lance shaped aromatic leaves. The flowers are generally some shade of blue or purple although there is a new pink variety. It grows to form a shrub that gives a flower bed a round and colorful touch and is particularly well liked by butterflies and bees that visit it repeatedly.

Plants form a bushy upright mound of bright green leaves the fragrant dark blue flowers forming on new wood in late summer and fall. Blue mist shrub is aptly named as it is covered in a cloud of blue from mid to late summer. Longwood blue has sky blue flowers atop silver foliage for a striking combination.

Although actually a woody shrub bluebeard is usually cut back each spring to 6 inches and treated more like a perennial. Extremely attractive to butterflies. It is a well behaved garden plant.

Blue mist shrubs are drought tolerant hence requires an average amount of irrigation. It is a well behaved garden plant that is very attractive to butterflies. Dark knight deep blue blooms on a medium sized plant of 2 to 3 feet care for blue mist shrubs caring for blue mist shrubs is quite easy as long as the plant gets plenty of sun and is planted in the appropriate zone listed above.

Department of agriculture plant. Longwood blue caryopteris x clandonensis is a showy low maintenance shrub that grows in any soil except soil that is wet or waterlogged. Shown here are pictures of the dark knight caryopteris.

Although this plant it easy to grow it does ask to be set in a spot that is. The slight arching habit makes it fit beautifully into the perennial border. A reliable performer dark knight flowers heavily every year.

One of the best blue mist spirea varieties dark knight has the deepest blue color of them all. There are many caryopteris hybrids even if these are reputed to be more vulnerable to freezing.