Summersweet Clethra Sixteen Candles. It bears good-sized flower spikes about 6 inches long for 4 to 6 weeks in mid-summer. Superior dense mounded habit with large blooms.
Summersweet is a versatile shrub that thrives in most climates and is suitable as a specimen plant or a hedge. It is a rounded suckering densely-branched deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3-6 less frequently to 8 tall and is noted for producing a mid to late summer bloom of. Like the species Sixteen Candles is long-blooming having sweet-fragrant flowers in the heat of the summer against a rich medium-to-dark green foliage.
The Sixteen Candles Summersweet is a compact deciduous shrub that slowly grows to about 2½ feet tall and wide eventually reaching perhaps 4 feet tall.
Clethra alnifolia commonly called summersweet is a deciduous shrub that is native to swampy woodlands wet marshes stream banks and seashores often in sandy soils along the coast from Maine to Florida and west to Texas. Clethra alnifolia Sixteen Candles Sixteen Candles Summersweet. 24-36 in Soil Conditions. Jun Jul Hardiness Zone.
