
Japanese Pieris
- Botanical Name
- Pieris japonica
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 9 to 12 feet
- Width
- 6 to 8 feet
- Flowers
- Spring: white or pink, urn-shaped borne on 3 to 6 inch drooping panicles
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, acidic, fertile
- Planting & Care
- Transplant as a container-grown specimen
- Requires a well-drained soil for survival
- When growing in the South, provide some afternoon shade
- Remove spent flowers right after done blooming
- Shelter from wind
- Problems
- Leaf spots, die back, lace bug, Florida wax scale, two-spotted mite, nematodes
- Varieties
- Aurea - semi-glossy yellow foliage, carmine-pink flowers
- Blush - rose-pink flowers, 5 feet
- Boltman's Pink - attractive bright red flower buds open up to blush-pink flowers
- Bonsai - small reddish leaves, 12 inches
- Captain Blood - deep red flower buds open to white flowers
- Flamingo - purple-red flower buds open to rose-red flowers that hold their color, new growth is bronze-red
- Valley Fire - new growth is red, white flowers
- Mountain Fire - firey red new growth, white flowers
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