Why Plant Sweet Tea Foamy Bells?
As delightful as an ice-cold sweet tea on a hot day! This sensational Spirit is a beautiful sight to see from your patio or lounge chair. Plant Sweet Tea Foamy Bells where you can view it up close and appreciate its complex mix of warm earth tones. Its foliage color ranges from burnished copper to apricot to tawny gold. Each Maple-shaped leaf is further adorned with deep maroon–purple veining. In mild climates, the foliage even remains attractive during the winter months. Flowers, too! Sweet Tea Foamy Bells is grown primarily for its captivating amber-peach foliage, but its blooms are a nice bonus. In late spring, tiny, airy white blossoms rise on slim stems, making a lovely accompaniment to the earth-toned leaves.
A marriage made in heaven! Or, in Oregon. Sweet Tea Foamy Bells is a hybrid Spirit that had its origins in Canby, Oregon, in the early 2000s. Master plant breeder Dan Heims and his team at Terra Nova Nurseries crossed two American natives, Coral Bells and Foamflower, to produce a crop of interesting seedlings that became known as Foamy Bells. Sweet Tea was one of the best of the lot, chosen for its large, dramatically colored leaves and its vigor. It was introduced in 2009, and although many other Foamy Bells selections have come out since, it remains a customer favorite.
How to use Sweet Tea Foamy Bells in the landscape?
Serve up some Sweet Tea in any of the partly shaded, woodland borders around your home for a lovely show that lasts all year or as a stunning addition to a container planting.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-9
How To Plant Sweet Tea Foamy Bells
Most Foamy Bells do best in morning sun, with shade during the hottest part of the day. Bright light will bring out the richest coloring in their foliage, but intense sun can scorch some varieties. Plant Sweet Tea in rich, organic, well-drained soil that is moist but never soggy. Black vine weevils can be a problem in some areas. You can control them organically with beneficial nematodes if this is the case, or simply keep your Foamy Bells in containers.
How To Water
Water deeply and consistently during the first growing season.
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 fall. Continue this for the first three years to get your plant well established.
How To Prune
Trim off spent flower spikes if you find them unattractive. Sweet Tea is evergreen; clean up any winter-damaged or faded foliage in early spring.
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.
