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Clethra alnifolia
Zone 6a garden plant. Hardy through a Chicago winter unless the note says to pot it.
Fragrant white spikes in July, in some shade
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- Light
- Part shade–sun
- Moisture
- Medium–moist
- Mature size
- 4–6 ft
- Spacing
- 4 ft
- Bloom or harvest
- Flowers Jul–Aug
- How it spreads
- Shrub, suckers slowly
- What to buy
- Container plants.
- When to plant
- Plant April or September.
In the design
One of the better flowering shrubs for a part-sun Chicago yard. Bees use it. It wants moisture the first years. Not a Chicago remnant, and it behaves.
