Fothergilla Mt. Airy is a nearly nearby native--native to Virginia and areas south, but it is hardy in New England and almost a perfect shrub.
Mt. Airy's bottlebrush-like spring flowers are sweetly fragrant, and its leathery leaves are an attractive blue-green. In the fall those leaves turn shades of bright yellow, orange, red and purple, sometimes on the same leaf.
Mt. Airy is a nice, low shrub, sometimes hard to find in the native plant world. It rarely hits 6-feet tall and makes a great addition to the side of a house or as a garden specimen.
Fun fact: Mt. Airy is named after the Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnatti, where Michael Dirr found it growing in the wild.
Mt. Airy Fothergilla
SKU: FMA01-MA
$38.00Price
2 Gallons
We expect this plant to be ready by June
- Latin: Fothergilla 'Mt Airy'
- Height: 3 to 6 feet high and wide
- Light: Full sun (best) to part shade
- Soil: Moist, well drained
- Bloom: White, fragrant, spring
- Foliage: Blue-green; red-purple fall
- Landscape: Hedge, garden, foundation planting
- Resistance: Deer
- Native range here. Fothergilla 'Mt. Airy' is a hybrid between Fothergilla gardenii and Fothergilla latifolia, which are both native to the Southeast.