Suntastic Pink Dwarf Abelia

Abelia grandiflora nana ‘Pink’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Flowering Evergreen Shrub (May be semi-deciduous in northern zones)

Height at Maturity: 2.5-3′

Width at Maturity: 4-5′

Suggested Spacing: 4′ for solid hedges, 8’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Dense Rounded Mound

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flower Size: Small, 0.5″

Flowering Period: Early Summer through Mid-Fall!

Flower Type: Single, bell-shape

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Creamy Yellow and Green flushed with Pink, Flamingo Pink shades in winter

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

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

Water Needs: Average, low when established; avoid overwatering

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage, Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained; drought tolerant when established

Soil pH: 5.0 – 8.0

Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Visual Attention

Resistances: Cold temperatures (-10F / Zones 6-11), Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

Abelias are at the top of our list when designing landscapes. Why? Because they’re super tough plants that can take all the sun, heat, humidity, and drought Mother Nature can throw at them…and, last but not least, they pack a punch of foliage color and bloom with fragrant flowers all summer and into fall. Suntastic Pink Dwarf Abelia is no exception, bringing a new range of color shades that change from season to season. During the warm season its leaves are variegated cream-yellow and green shades flushed with pink. Then, with the arrival of cooler temperatures in fall the leaves begin turning more pink, intensifying to a flamingo pink once winter sets in. Fragrant white flowers from early summer into fall are an extra bonus the butterflies and hummingbirds will thank you for. Growing in a dense mound to 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide, Suntastic Pink is ideal for use as an accent shrub in smaller garden spaces or mixed flowering shrub borders, or in groupings or as a low hedge in larger landscape borders, and is ideal for use in home foundation plantings. You might also be happy to know that insects, diseases, deer and rabbits turn their nose up to Abelia!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a dense mound 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide, Suntastic Pink Abelia has many, many uses in landscape design. It is ideal for use as a colorful accent or specimen in smaller landscape spaces and provides a stunning display of color when planted in groupings or mass plantings in larger landscape borders. It is excellent for use in straight or staggered rows in home foundation plantings or in mass on sunny slopes, embankments and hillsides for erosion control. It shears well so is perfect for use as a low, formal hedge. Because it will tolerate part shade we often use it as an underplanting for small trees such as crape myrtle, Vitex (Chaste Tree) and taller growing Japanese maples. Can also be grown in containers that can be situated on patios, porches, decks and other outdoor living spaces where the butterflies and hummingbirds feeding can be enjoyed from close up. A fine addition to butterfly and hummingbird gardens, pink theme gardens, Asian-themed gardens and Xeriscape gardens (low water needs)

Suggested Spacing: 4 feet apart for solid hedges, 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

Suntastic Pink Abelia is very easy to grow in most any moist but well drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil however is exceptionally tolerant of dry soil conditions when established. The best foliage color occurs in full to mostly sun. Maintenance is minimal. If needed, we give it a light trimming for shaping purposes one time a year in late winter or early spring. That said, plants respond very well to shearing for hedges or formal shapes. It is evergreen in the southern zones where it grows and might be semi-deciduous some winters in zones north of 7b.

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