What Is A Beauty Bush?

Beauty bush is a deciduous type of shrub. Beauty bush needs to have full sun to grow real good and full sun includes all day and full west sun. It will tolerates brief periods of standing water. The beauty bush will attract both butterflies and bees with nectar and or pollen. It grows to ten to fifteen feet tall and wide. It grows good in zones 4 -8.

The beauty bush has special attributes which are, it has fine textured foliage that is neatly arranged along arching branches and pale bark peels in attractive shreds on thicker stems. When it is early summer this shrub will cover itself in small baby pink flowers for several weeks that is when the bees and butterflies are attracted to the flowers. There are golden and variegated foliage forms that are available. Doing some pruning of the weakest and oldest branches every few years will keep it kept.

There are different design ideas of the beauty bush, which are, it is a handsome large shrub for background, or hedging, which the beauty bush can be mixed with other large shrubs such as lilac, cut leaf sumac, and flowering quince. It is real nice to be planted with purple leaf smoke bush.