55 Japanese Pieris Little Heath

Showy clusters of small white bell shaped flowers add to the beauty in spring.

Japanese pieris little heath. Whatever you call it you ll never be bored with this plant. New leaves are pink. Dramatic japanese pieris is a high maintenance plant requiring morning sun afternoon shade and well draining soil that is organically rich and slightly acidic. Little heath a smaller variety with showy chains of small white bell shaped flowers and bright scarlet emerging foliage that matures to dark green with white edges. It produces clusters of small white fragrant flowers at the tips and the foliage. Little heath japanese pieris is a dense multi stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. A fine evergreen dwarf with narrow 1 5 inch long green leaves edged with silvery white.

It is a neat little shrub with short elongated pointed leaves of mid green colour with white margins. Sometimes incorrectly sold as p. Small fragrant white flowers appear on pendulous racemes in early spring. Little heath pieris also known as lily of the valley shrub or andomeda is a delightful evergreen flowering shrub that offers outstanding four season interest in the garden. 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. It does poorly in drying winds and. New growth is a rich mahogany red.

Pieris japonica little heath dwarf japanese pieris little heath is a dwarf variety of pieris. Performs best in moist organic and acidic soils. Click for more information. The foliage changes color throughout the seasons and in late summer or fall long dangling clusters of colorful flower buds appear. New leaves emerge orange to copper red. Pieris japonica goes by many names including japanese andromeda lily of the valley shrub and japanese pieris. Pieris japonica little heath sku 6516 a neat compact shrub with a yellow green variegation on the margins of the gray green leaves.

Flowers white from pink buds rather sparse.