Description

A lovely disease resistant variety that produces profuse clusters of pink flowers; bright reddish-orange new foliage matures to a deep glossy green and is deeply curled; burgundy fall and winter foliage; excellent groundcover, accent, or foundation shrub

Landscape Attributes

Calisto® Indian Hawthorn is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Calisto® Indian Hawthorn is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Calisto® Indian Hawthorn will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.