Plant: Temple of Bloom® Seven-Son Flower
Heptacodium · Heptacodium miconioides 'Temple of Bloom'
Size: 2 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
An upright, multi stemmed small tree or large shrub reaching 15 to 20 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide, flowering from summer into fall when little else is in bloom. Fragrant white flowers in panicles are followed by vivid cherry red to rose purple calyces that extend the display, and the deep green opposite leaves give way in winter to light tan peeling bark. It takes part sun to sun with average moisture and good drainage in clay, loam, sand or high organic soils, tolerates poor soil, and needs essentially no special care. Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds work the flowers. Use it as a specimen, a border anchor or in a naturalised woodland edge.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
An upright, multi stemmed small tree or large shrub reaching 15 to 20 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide, flowering from summer into fall when little else is in bloom. Fragrant white flowers in panicles are followed by vivid cherry red to rose purple calyces that extend the display, and the deep green opposite leaves give way in winter to light tan peeling bark. It takes part sun to sun with average moisture and good drainage in clay, loam, sand or high organic soils, tolerates poor soil, and needs essentially no special care. Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds work the flowers. Use it as a specimen, a border anchor or in a naturalised woodland edge.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white flowers in panicles open from summer into fall, followed by a vivid cherry red to rose purple calyx that carries the display on into autumn.
- Fruit
- Small rounded fruit with a cherry red to rose purple calyx.
- Bark & stems
- Light tan to gray brown bark exfoliates to reveal a lighter inner surface, a feature especially striking in winter.
- Native range
- China
