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Blue Cascade Evergreen Witch Hazel (Distylium) - 3 Gallon

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Blue Cascade Evergreen Witch Hazel (Distylium) – 3 Gallon

Original price was: $74.97.Current price is: $52.48.

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Blue Cascade Distylium

Distylium ‘PIIDIST-II’ PP#24,409

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6b-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 3-4′

Width at Maturity: 4-5′

Spacing Suggestions: 3′ for solid hedges; 6’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: Red

Flower Size: .25″

Flowering Period: Winter/Late Winter

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Blue-green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sandy (amended), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Consistently Moist

Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acidic)

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, Consistently Moist Soil

Description

Every once in a while, maybe once in a decade, a new plant comes along that has everything we look for in a hardy and reliable evergreen flowering shrub. Very adaptable, Distyliums, also known as Evergreen Witch Hazel, grow well in sun or part shade and will tolerate dry or wet soils when established, which can’t be said about many shrubs. Heat and humidity don’t phase the plants. We’ve seen no problems with insects and disease and deer turn up their nose. In landscape design, Distyliums are a great alternative for boxwood, laurels, holly and juniper in sunny to partially shaded home foundation plantings, landscape borders, and as a soil stabilizer on embankments and slopes.

Blue Cascade is an exciting Distylium variety featuring handsome, matte blue-green foliage with a cascading, layered habit. Reddish-maroon flowers in late January through March add interest during the winter months. No other plant we’ve seen looks like Blue Cascade Distyilium so it’s sure to be a standout in your landscape!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a cascading mound that reaches 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, Blue Cascade Distylium is an ideal for use as an an accent, in groupings, or as a staggered or straight row hedge planting in home foundation plantings and landscape borders. It is also very useful in mass plantings to dress up embankments, hillsides and slopes while providing excellent erosion control.

Spacing Suggestions: 4 feet apart for solid hedges; 6 feet or more apart for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6b, where this Distylium is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Exceptionally adaptable, Distylium is very easy to grow in most any moist to moderately drained soil of average to even low fertility and full sun to part shade. Distyliums tolerate more moisture than many other evergreen shrubs and is also tolerant of dry soil conditions when established. We have Distyliums growing in spots in our gardens that receive from 4 hours up to 8 hours of direct sunlight per day and plants do equally well. That said, the plants in more sun might be a little more dense. Maintenance is minimal unless you want a more formal shape, which will require some pruning.

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This plant arrived large and healthy. It’s a beautiful addition to my foundation plantings. It’s been planted about 2 weeks and already showing new growth.—————————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG

Love the foliage on this plant! Ordered many plants from Wilson Bros. All were received in great condition! —————– WBG Reply: Hi Magda – We agree, the Blue Cascade Distylium sure does have some handsome blue leaves that provide nice color and a fine texture in the landscape. Thanks for your review and let us know if there’s ever anything else we can do for you. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

Now I know why all the 5 star reviews. Didn’t know what to expect but these were the best plants I’ve ever bought online. There is a big difference between online nurseries and I would rank Wilson Bros Gardens at the very top of my list. Planted the Blue Cascades along the front of my house and they stand out nicely already. Can’t say enough, wow! Expect to see many more orders from me in the future. Thanks! ——————- WBG Reply: – Hi Karla – Thanks so much for your review and for the compliments. Glad to hear you appreciate the larger size plants we grow and ship. I think Distylium are one of if not the best evergreen plants for home fountations. Used three different varieties in different spots around my own home. Hope you enjoy yours for years to come! Let us know of there’s every anything else we can help you with. – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens