Description:

An elegant, slow growing variety that produces clusters of white flowers in spring; bright reddish-copper new foliage matures to a deep blue-green, with butter-cream variegation and pink highlights; excellent groundcover, accent, or foundation shrub

Ornamental Features

Fiesta Variegated Indian Hawthorn features showy clusters of white flowers at the ends of the branches from late winter to early spring, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. It has attractive creamy white-variegated bluish-green foliage with hints of pink which emerges antique red in spring. The glossy oval leaves are highly ornamental and turn burgundy in the fall, which persists throughout the winter.

Landscape Attributes

Fiesta Variegated Indian Hawthorn is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. 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.

Fiesta Variegated Indian Hawthorn is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover

Planting & Growing

Fiesta Variegated Indian Hawthorn will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground. It grows at a slow 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.