Be sure to plant Sweet Shrub where you can enjoy the lovely fruit-salad aroma of the flowers. The scent is strongest when the maroon blooms first appear, usually around April or May.
An easy-to-grow shrub, Sweet Shrub likes a break from afternoon sun but will grow anywhere from full sun to full shade. It grows in medium soil, tolerating some flooding, but it does not like sand.
It makes a great hedge or foundation planting and also works well as a single specimen.
Calycanthus floridus (Sweet Shrub)
SKU: CA01-SS
$50.00Price
$50.00 per 3 Gallons
- Latin: Calycanthus floridus
- Pollinator value: Medium
- Current height: 3-4 feet
- Mature height: 6-10 feet high and wide
- Light: Sun or part shade; likes moist shade
- Soil: Adaptable
- Bloom: Maroon, April-July, fragrant!
- Foliage: Deciduous, yellow fall
- Landscape: Somewhere where its fragrance can be enjoyed
- Native just south of the Northeast. See range here
