Product Details
- Form: Medium shrub
- Height: m
- Width: m
- Production: Container grown, suitable for planting all year round.
- Pot Size: 18ltr
- Position: Partial shade to shade.
- Soil: Requires neutral to acid soil, add peat at time of planting. Roots are shallow and spreading.
- Interest: Young growth emerges red lightening to pink before evolving the mature variegated white and green colour. Light pruning after first flush will encourage more young shoots to appear, prolonging interest. White flowers emerge in late summer.
- Flowers: Small lily of the valley like white flowers.
- Rate of Growth: Up to 0.3m per year.
- Hardiness: Hardy, however young growth can get caught by frosts but quickly recover.
Pieris japonica Little Heath has small delicate evergreen leaves in comparison with other pieris. The small variegated green & white leaves are in proportion when paired with similarly small leaf dwarf rhododendrons and azaleas. This pieris provides all year round interest with it's white variegated green leaves. The highlight is the combination of long lasting red young growth and flowers provides good contrast when viewed against the back drop of the green leaves of other ericaceous plants.