Majestic Beauty® Indian Hawthorn
Rhaphiolepis x 'Montic'
Easy-to-grow evergreen shrub produces huge clusters of fragrant, pearl-pink flowers. Perfect for planting along driveways and parking medians where reflected heat is an issue. Useful as a background shrub, screen or small tree with single or multiple trunks.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | raf-i-OL-e-pis HIB-rid |
| Key feature: | Spring Flowering |
| Plant types: | Shrub, Tree |
| Patent Act: | Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent. |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 7 - 11 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 8 - 10, 12 - 24, 26, 28 - 31 |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate grower, tree form 20 to 25 ft. tall, 8 to 10 ft. wide, smaller as a shrub. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Round |
| Flower attributes: | Fragrant, Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Easy Care, Improved Pest and Disease Resistance, Ornamental Berries, Waterwise, Year-round Interest |
| Landscape uses: | Container, Privacy Screen, Windbreak, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Pink |
| Blooms: | Spring |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 6960 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a formal appearance, shear annually after flowering. Pruning time: spring after flowering.
Design Ideas
May be the most versatile of all evergreen shrubs. Excellent cover for foundation planting that takes afternoon sun in summer. Well proven for parking lots and along driveways where reflected heat is problematic. Outstanding structural bloomer for back of beds and borders. Suited to making a casual naturalistic privacy screen or sheared into sheared into a more formal hedge. Size is ideal for a small tree in courtyards, urban gardens and in limited front yards.
Companion Plants
Its pearlescent white to pink blossoms stand out in spring when mixed in a border with Greenlane Euonymus (Euonymus fortunei 'Greenlane'), Bronze New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax 'Atropurpureum Compactum'), Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis lanata), Japanese Aralia (Fatsia japonica) and similar foliage plants. When trained as a small tree, underplant with drifts of Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon japonicus), Lipstick Strawberry Plant (Fragaria x 'Lipstick'), and Wayne Roderick Fleabane (Erigeron x 'Wayne Roderick').
Lore
Raphiolepis is one of the few plants that has no known human uses.
Easy-to-grow evergreen shrub produces huge clusters of fragrant, pearl-pink flowers. Perfect for planting along driveways and parking medians where reflected heat is an issue. Useful as a background shrub, screen or small tree with single or multiple trunks.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a formal appearance, shear annually after flowering. Pruning time: spring after flowering.
Design Ideas
May be the most versatile of all evergreen shrubs. Excellent cover for foundation planting that takes afternoon sun in summer. Well proven for parking lots and along driveways where reflected heat is problematic. Outstanding structural bloomer for back of beds and borders. Suited to making a casual naturalistic privacy screen or sheared into sheared into a more formal hedge. Size is ideal for a small tree in courtyards, urban gardens and in limited front yards.
Companion Plants
Its pearlescent white to pink blossoms stand out in spring when mixed in a border with Greenlane Euonymus (Euonymus fortunei 'Greenlane'), Bronze New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax 'Atropurpureum Compactum'), Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis lanata), Japanese Aralia (Fatsia japonica) and similar foliage plants. When trained as a small tree, underplant with drifts of Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon japonicus), Lipstick Strawberry Plant (Fragaria x 'Lipstick'), and Wayne Roderick Fleabane (Erigeron x 'Wayne Roderick').
Lore
Raphiolepis is one of the few plants that has no known human uses.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | raf-i-OL-e-pis HIB-rid |
| Key feature: | Spring Flowering |
| Plant types: | Shrub, Tree |
| Patent Act: | Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent. |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 7 - 11 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 8 - 10, 12 - 24, 26, 28 - 31 |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate grower, tree form 20 to 25 ft. tall, 8 to 10 ft. wide, smaller as a shrub. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Round |
| Flower attributes: | Fragrant, Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Easy Care, Improved Pest and Disease Resistance, Ornamental Berries, Waterwise, Year-round Interest |
| Landscape uses: | Container, Privacy Screen, Windbreak, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Pink |
| Blooms: | Spring |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 6960 |
