Plant: Cavatine - Pieris
Pieris japonica 'Cavatine'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
More about this plant
Cavatine is a dwarf Japanese pieris, a dense, rounded evergreen about 2 to 3 feet tall and wide with glossy dark green leaves and drooping clusters of fragrant white urn-shaped flowers in early spring. It likes part shade and moist, acidic, well-drained soil, and resists deer. Use it in borders, foundation plantings, small gardens and containers. All parts are poisonous if eaten.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Cavatine is a dwarf Japanese pieris, a dense, rounded evergreen about 2 to 3 feet tall and wide with glossy dark green leaves and drooping clusters of fragrant white urn-shaped flowers in early spring. It likes part shade and moist, acidic, well-drained soil, and resists deer. Use it in borders, foundation plantings, small gardens and containers. All parts are poisonous if eaten.
- Flowers
- Drooping clusters of small white urn-shaped fragrant flowers in early spring.
- Foliage
- Small, glossy, leathery dark green leaves clustered near the branch tips, with new growth bronze to pinkish.
- Fruit
- Small dry capsules that persist into winter; not ornamentally significant.
- Bark & stems
- Smooth, hairless stems gold-yellow to green.
- Pruning
- Needs minimal pruning; prune in late winter before new growth, since flowers form on old growth.
- Native range
- Southeast China, central to southern Japan and Taiwan
