Caryopteris 'Summer Sorbet'
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Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Summer Sorbet' PP #15935
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• common name: bluebeard
• flowering season: latter half of summer
• height: 3 feet
• Light requirements: full sun, half a day of sun will do
• Soil requirements: average soil that is well drained
• Water requirements: average
• Growth habit: a low bush
• How to propagate: summer cuttings
• Leaf type: green leaves edged in yellow
• Special characteristics: blue flowers contrast to the leaves
• Other points of interests: flowering during the warmest part of mid to late summer
The leaves of this low shrub are two or three inches long, green with broad bright yellow margins. They have a spicy scent when rubbed, and deer avoid eating them. During the later part of summer clusters of blue flowers decorate the branches. A plant grows to about three feet high and wide. It is deciduous, dropping its leaves in fall. In colder climates the tips of the branches may die back over winter, so gardeners often cut it back all the way back to the ground in spring and let it grow fresh branches. In other words, it is often treated more like a herbaceous perennial than a shrub. In August, the combination of blue flowers and golden-edged leaves is attractive. USDA Zones 6 - 8 in the East, to Zone 9 in the West.