Description

A bushy, erect shrub with dark green glossy foliage on burgundy-red stems; beautiful light blue flower clusters add color in the late spring; perfect for screening and spring color along borders; needs weekly watering, or more often in extreme heat

Landscape Attributes

Gloire de Varsailles New Jersey Tea is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. 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.

Gloire de Varsailles New Jersey Tea is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Gloire de Varsailles New Jersey Tea will grow to be about 8 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average conditions that are neither too wet nor too dry, and is very intolerant of standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.