BOTANICAL NAME:  Clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’

COMMON NAME: “Ruby Spice Summersweet”

ATTRACTS:  Butterflies, Birds & Pollinators

RESISTANT:

BLOOM COLOR/ TIME: Fragrant pink flowers in Summer

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:  Full to Part Sun 

HEIGHT: 4 to 6 feet

WIDTH: 3 to 5 feet

EVERGREEN OR DECIDUOUS: Deciduous

WATER REQUIREMENTS: Average to Moderate

SOIL REQUIREMENTS: consistently moist, acidic, sandy soils. Can be grown in wetter soil in full sun to part shade

GARDEN ATTRIBUTES: Attracts pollinators

Fragrant flowers

Natives

HARDINESS ZONES: 4-9

Ruby Spice Clethra is a deciduous, rounded shrub w/bottlebrush-like clusters of fragrant, pink flowers in Summer. Plant in a mass or group, foundations or shrub borders. Also can be planted along streams, banks or ponds. Native