Brand:  Southern Living

Description:

A stunning, vigorous and robust variety that produces profuse clusters of dark pink flowers; bright reddish-orange new foliage matures to a deep glossy green, with deep maroon winter foliage; excellent accent or privacy screen

Ornamental Features

Rosalinda® Indian Hawthorn features showy clusters of lightly-scented pink flowers at the ends of the branches from late winter to mid spring, which emerge from distinctive hot pink flower buds. It has attractive dark green evergreen foliage which emerges coppery-bronze in spring. The glossy oval leaves are highly ornamental and turn burgundy in the fall, which persists throughout the winter.

Landscape Attributes

Rosalinda® Indian Hawthorn is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Rosalinda® Indian Hawthorn is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Rosalinda® Indian Hawthorn will grow to be about 14 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.