Planted Caryopteris divaricata 'Snow Fairy' which I got from Natureworks in 2012. Very different from the blue mist shrub, or bluebeard Caryopteris clandonensis.
This is more like a perennial. It has bright variegated foliage that smells strongly of green peppers when you touch it.
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| 9/29/13 |
I put it in the border along the west walkway across from the bulkhead door, where I can touch its strongly scented leaves as I walk by.
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| 7/10/14 |
It blooms in August and September. The flowers are not very noticeable. But 'Snow Fairy''s attraction is the foliage, not the sparse, tiny flowers.
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| 8/3/14 |
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| 9/14/15 |
By late summer the caryopteris gets whitish and frothy looking, and I can see where the 'Snow Fairy' name comes from.
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| 9/14/15 |
This almost did not come back in 2017. Something has affected this robust, bushy plant and only a few weak stems came up in very late spring. It lives, but is much diminished and shrunken.
