Dark Knight Bluebeard
Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Dark Knight'
Attractive compact, mounding grower with deep purple blue, fragrant blooms. Long blooming season. Creates a wonderful border for perennial beds, or use along walks and entryways. Deciduous.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | kar-i-OP-ter-is klan-do-NEN-sis |
| Key feature: | Fragrant |
| Plant type: | Shrub |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Deciduous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 5 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 3 - 7, 14 - 17, 29 - 41 |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate grower to 2 ft. tall and wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Flower attribute: | Fragrant |
| Special features: | Attracts Butterflies, Waterwise |
| Landscape use: | Border |
| Flower color: | Purple |
| Blooms: | Summer |
| Foliage color: | Gray-green |
| Item no.: | 2289 |
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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.
Design Ideas
This is a highly versatile small shrub for the front of sunny beds and borders. Ideal as a single specimen or in groups of three or more. Excellent choice for late-summer color in compositions featuring lower growing, shrubbier herbs and woody perennials. Great for along white picket fences or to flesh out raised planters. Small enough to fit nicely into city gardens and town-house yards.
Attractive compact, mounding grower with deep purple blue, fragrant blooms. Long blooming season. Creates a wonderful border for perennial beds, or use along walks and entryways. Deciduous.
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.
Design Ideas
This is a highly versatile small shrub for the front of sunny beds and borders. Ideal as a single specimen or in groups of three or more. Excellent choice for late-summer color in compositions featuring lower growing, shrubbier herbs and woody perennials. Great for along white picket fences or to flesh out raised planters. Small enough to fit nicely into city gardens and town-house yards.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | kar-i-OP-ter-is klan-do-NEN-sis |
| Key feature: | Fragrant |
| Plant type: | Shrub |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Deciduous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 5 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 3 - 7, 14 - 17, 29 - 41 |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate grower to 2 ft. tall and wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Flower attribute: | Fragrant |
| Special features: | Attracts Butterflies, Waterwise |
| Landscape use: | Border |
| Flower color: | Purple |
| Blooms: | Summer |
| Foliage color: | Gray-green |
| Item no.: | 2289 |
