Summersweet Clethra Leaf Arrangement. 2 to 4 inches long sharply serrated medium to dark green above paler beneath turns a golden-yellow in fall. In landscape design they are especially effective massed or grouped in sunny or shady flowering shrub borders butterfly and hummingbird gardens.
Variety or Cultivar Ruby Spice _ Ruby Spice is an upright densely-branched suckering deciduous shrub with oval toothed dark green leaves turning yellow and orange in autumn and dense upright terminal racemes of fragrant bell-shaped rose-pink flowers in late summer and early autumn. When planted right and in the right spot Clethra also called summersweet or sweet pepperbush are very easy to grow. Attracts butterflies hummingbirds and other pollinators.
Leaf or needle arrangement size shape and texture Simple alternate leaves.
Summersweet followed by 1283 people on Pinterest. Bears groups of upright. Clethra can be deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs with mid to dark green simple leaves and fragrant white or pink flowers that cluster at branch tips in summer. Glossy dark green leaves set off the fragrant extra-large white summer flowers.
