![]() ![]() ![]() We chose this plant for our new demonstration shrub planting at the Wales Park pollinator garden, where you can see it in bloom right now, along with other attractive native shrubs including meadowsweet, common elderberry, sweetfern, spicebush and redosier dogwood. Sweet-pepperbush is native to Coastal Maine, although it is not found in our part of the Midcoast area. There are thus lots of cultivars of this plant to choose from, but I find the straight native version to be just as beautiful. Sweet-pepperbush can grow in sun and shade, and likes some soil moisture. It’s a great plant for eco landscaping, with a neat, showy appearance even when not in flower and with winter interest as well. It is one of our few native shrubs that blooms in late summer, with prolific spikes of showy white flowers in early August and a scent strong enough to carry on the breeze. I have to say that it is one of my favorite shrubs for pollinators. I spent sometime this morning enjoying the sweet-pepperbush ( Clethra alnifolia) in my yard, taking in its heavenly scent and watching the many bumblebees visiting the plant. ![]()
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