Join David as he takes us into Overdevest Nurseries to take a look👀 at this exciting new Japanese Andromeda. Listen in as he explains why this delightful, evergreen shrub provides so much value.... you quite simply have to find a place for somewhere around your home! Discover how it provides all these incredible, long dangling (and very welcome) early spring flowers, and follows that up with gorgeous new bright red new growth, and then settles down to provide dark green, evergreen foliage too during the rest of the year. In his narration, David will fill you in on how big it gets, gives you tips on where, and how you should plant it, and describes the optimum conditions, so that you will be able to enjoy its annual display for many, many years. FEATURES: 🌼 Gorgeous chains of ruby, lily-of-the-valley like urn-shaped flowers 😍 Attractive red new growth. 🦌 Deer Resistant 💜 Dense, compact, multi stemmed evergreen shrub 👍 Hardy (Zone 5) throughout our region 👌 Easy to Grow & care for 🏡 Excellent foundation plant, informal hedge or addition to a border. ⭐️ Multi Season Interest
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Well hello and welcome to Over-de-Vest Nurseries, on a very pleasant late afternoon in early spring.
And it's fairly windy outside, so it's kind of nice to be able to come into this house
and be surrounded by all of these beautiful, gorgeous plants. And when I zoom in on this
plant here, you'll see what I'm talking about, because this is a new exciting variety of
And as you see, it's covered, literally covered, with masses of these lily-of-the-valley-like
flowers, which is why sometimes people call it the lily-of-the-valley shrub. More often,
it's called Japanese Andromeda. And this particular selection, which is really bushy and compact,
only gets to about four foot high by about the same wide, and then each spring is covered with
masses of these gorgeous flowers. So many that you can almost not see the leaves. Now like other
Pyrrhus, it's a plant that likes to grow in a well-drained, preferably acid-type soil. It's
important that they're not planted in damp, wet situations, but it's also important that they
because these are shallow-rooting plants, that you don't plant them too deep, that you dig a
good-sized hole, incorporate plenty of organic matter like peat or pine bark, and then when
you water it to get it established, probably mulch the soil too, with a good layer of pine bark mulch
that will help to keep the soil nice and cool and moist. Then you'll get plenty of bushy growth
and loads and loads of flowers that will come back every year. Now I should also mention
that when these flowers go over in about three or four weeks time, it's not finished then,
because it will then start to produce bright, young, red growth that carries the display well
into the early part of the summer. Evergreen, bushy, compact, and very free flowering,
this is a selection that was developed by Mike Farrow. He collected some seed from a well-known
and highly reliable variety called Dorothy Wyckoff, that has white-colored flowers,
and as you see, this particular seedling has much darker and has much more colorful flowers.
This is Pyrus interstellar from Proven Winners, a compact, bushy,
and very free flowering Japanese Andromeda or Lily of the Valley shrub.
