Plant: Paisley Pup® Doghobble
Doghobble · Leucothoe fontanesiana 'SMNLFGRV'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Paisley Pup is a compact broadleaf evergreen doghobble growing 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide with an upright, low branching, arching habit. Its variegated pink, green, cream and bronze foliage is the main show, and tiny fragrant white bell shaped blooms are strung along the arching branches in spring and summer. It wants part shade, acidic soil rich in organic matter and average water, and it tolerates heavy shade and holds slopes against erosion. Deer resistant and disease resistant, it works as a border, edging, container, groundcover or mass planting at a woodland edge. All parts are poisonous if eaten.
- Full Shade
- Grows to 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Paisley Pup is a compact broadleaf evergreen doghobble growing 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide with an upright, low branching, arching habit. Its variegated pink, green, cream and bronze foliage is the main show, and tiny fragrant white bell shaped blooms are strung along the arching branches in spring and summer. It wants part shade, acidic soil rich in organic matter and average water, and it tolerates heavy shade and holds slopes against erosion. Deer resistant and disease resistant, it works as a border, edging, container, groundcover or mass planting at a woodland edge. All parts are poisonous if eaten.
- Flowers
- Tiny fragrant white bell to urn shaped flowers strung in drooping racemes from the leaf axils along the arching branches.
- Foliage
- Glossy evergreen lanceolate leaves with serrate margins tapering to a long point, variegated in pink, green, cream and bronze, with red new growth.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Pruning
- Pruning is not necessary or recommended.
- Native range
- Southeastern United States
