Coppertone™ Dystilium is a fast and moderate growing shrub that can be grown in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 7A through 9B. It matures to an average height of 3 feet to 4 feet and an average width of 3 feet to 6 feet, depending on climate and other environmental factors. It prefers growing in a location that provides full sun, morning sun with afternoon shade or morning shade with afternoon sun and grows best when planted in sand, loam, clay or silt soil that is well drained, moderately drained or moderately wet. In the winter Coppertone™ Dystilium produces red flowers. The foliage is blue green, orange and bronze in color.

Coppertone™ Dystilium can be useful in the landscape in foundation plantings, in shrub borders, as an accent, in landscape beds or islands, to accentuate entryways, in small groupings or as a hedge and also in rock or xeriscape gardens, theme gardens, cottage gardens or perennial gardens.

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Noteworthy Characteristics

It's been years since an entirely new and unique evergreen shrub has come along that we think, like 'Carissa Holly' and 'Bordeaux Yaupon Holly, will become a staple in home foundation plantings. Introducing Coppertone™ Distylium; a compact spreading to rounded evergreen flowering shrub with coppery-red new foliage that matures to deep blue-green. A member of the witch hazel family, this plant produces unique, petite red flowers that appear in the winter, when not much else is blooming in the landscape. The flowers consist of small ribbon-like petaled clusters of red blooms borne at the leaf axis of the stem.

Uses

Highly adaptable, Coppertone™ Distylium is a great alternative for boxwood, Otto Luyken laurel, holly and juniper in home foundation plantings or anywhere you want low maintenance evergreen shrubs. With its tolerance of wet soil, Distylium is the perfect choice for those landscape beds between the sidewalk and the home where water can't escape and soil often remains constantly soggy. Also makes a nice accent plant on either side of an entryway.  

Culture & Care Tips

With superior tolerance to dry or wet soils, heat and cold hardiness (Zone 7a-9b), full blazing to filtered sun, exceptional pest and disease resistance (including deer and rabbit), compact size and low maintenance, and attractive evergreen foliage and texture, Coppertone™ Distylium has absolutely everything we look for in a home foundation plant.

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