Sweetshrub or Calycanthus is a wonderful flowering shrub. The shrub blooms profusely and the unusual flowers last a long time in bouquets.
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Growing Calycanthus or Sweetshrub
If you are looking for a beautiful reblooming flowering shrub than look no further than Calycanthus or Sweetshrub. I can see where it comes by the name Sweetshrub because it is one sweet shrub! It has rapidly become one of my favorite flowering shrubs.
Flowering Shrub
As you can see, we have it growing in the back of our shrub bed. It pairs beautifully with the crepe myrtle and the azaleas, providing bloom in the gap between the azaleas bloom time and the crepe myrtles bloom time. It is about 6 feet tall, has been blooming since early May, and is hardy in zones 5-9.
Aphrodite from Proven Winners
This particle sweetshrub is Aphrodite from Proven Winners. It is super easy to grow. Blooms on old wood and new wood. Flowers in mid summer, late summer and early fall.
Gorgeous Flowering Shrub
But let’s talk about those flowers! They are a deep wine color and look like faded silk. Seriously. The most gorgeous flowers, they don’t even look real. The petals are thicker almost like a magnolia petal. They last forever in a bouquet. They are unusual enough to be total show stoppers on their own! I haven’t tried drying them, but I will and let you know how it goes.
In case you missed it, last week I did a post on Growing Columbine:
Pam Richardson says
June 25, 2018 at 4:47 pmThe sweetshrub is a beautiful addition to any garden. Pam, the blooms are beautiful, they really do look like silk! You always have great gardening info. Thank you for linking to Gardens Galore!
Sandra at Maison De Jardin says
June 25, 2018 at 1:59 pmThis lovely post made me homesick for our previous home in Va. I had 2 of these shrubs in our garden and I can still smell the wonderful fragrance. I would cut and dry the blossoms and put them in potpourri. They dry nicely and are a wonderful addition to potpourri which has orange peel.
Thanks for the memories!
Pam Greer says
June 25, 2018 at 4:42 pmI am definitely going to dry them now!
Lisa says
June 25, 2018 at 9:52 amI love the flowers on this shrub. They really are beautiful. I would love to plant some in my yard but I am having a terrible problem with deer eating everything I plant. Do you have deer in your yard and if so, do they munch on sweetshrub?
Pam Greer says
June 25, 2018 at 11:04 amWe don’t have any deer. The website says that it’s deer resistant.
Christine says
June 25, 2018 at 9:05 amWow, I am going to have to look for that shrub next time I am out plant shopping. Which is in about ten minutes after seeing that! Beautiful flowers!
Pam Greer says
June 25, 2018 at 11:04 amIt’s gorgeous, you’ll love it!
Linda S says
June 16, 2018 at 12:03 pmThese blossoms are just gorgeous!
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