Why Plant Kaleidoscope Abelia?
Color for days! Kaleidoscope is the variegated Abelia that you didn't realize your landscape was missing until now. A great addition to small landscapes or patio containers, this variegated beauty offers lime-green/yellow foliage in the spring which turns into blazing orange and red hues in the fall. One of the longest blooming Abelias on the market, you'll enjoy the small white blooms nestled in the variegated foliage from Spring until Fall! Not only is this shrub very hardy, but drought and excessive heat don't keep Kaleidoscope down and out. Plant this blazing beauty today and watch as your landscape explodes into a kaleidoscope of color!
Abelias are a member of the honeysuckle family and have delightfully fragrant flowers. They originated in eastern China and were brought to England in 1844. They were found to be an easy care and charming shrub, with attractive foliage and a long bloom time. Kaleidoscope Abelia outdoes itself in the attractive foliage department, starting out lime green and yellow in spring, adding golden highlights in summer and finally putting on a grand orange and red display in fall.
How to use Kaleidoscope Abelia in the landscape?
Kaleidoscope is the longest blooming of the Abelias, with fragrant white flowers covering the shrub from late spring well into fall. Add in the array of colors produced by the leaves - green, yellow, gold, orange, and red - and you've got a winner!
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 6-9
How To Plant Kaleidoscope Abelia
Kaleidoscope Abelia is a low maintenance plant and is generally disease and pest free. It likes full sun or part shade, but will produce more flowers and leaf coloration when grown in full sun. Kaleidoscope grows readily in moist well-drained soils and likes to be sheltered from hard freezes. Water once a week, or more if grown in containers. The flowers bloom on new wood, so prune as needed in late winter or early spring.
How To Water
Water twice weekly for the first 3-5 weeks; then water weekly for the remainder of the year until winter. When you water, water slowly and thoroughly. Watering needs may be altered due to extreme weather conditions.
How To Fertilize
Incorporate Elements Starter Plant food granular form into the soil when planting. If planting in spring or summer start fertilizing late fall using Elements Starter Plant food granular form on an annual basis each late year. Continue this for three years to get your plant well established.
How To Prune
Abelia flowers on new wood so prune/shear your Abelia in very early spring before the new growth starts.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
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Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
