Bring vibrant late-season color to your garden with Dark Knight Bluebeard, a compact flowering shrub prized for its rich purplish-blue blooms and fragrant silver-gray foliage. Blooming from late summer into fall, this beautiful shrub provides valuable color and nectar when many other garden plants have finished flowering.

Its dense, mounded growth habit makes it ideal for borders, pollinator gardens, cottage gardens, foundation plantings, and patio containers. The aromatic foliage adds texture and contrast throughout the growing season, while masses of deep blue flowers attract butterflies, bees, and other beneficial pollinators.

Easy to grow and drought tolerant once established, Dark Knight Bluebeard is an excellent choice for gardeners seeking long-lasting color and low-maintenance beauty.

These healthy plants are shipped established in 4 inch nursery pots and are ready to thrive in your landscape.

• 1 live Dark Knight Bluebeard
• 4 inch pot plant
• Flowering pollinator shrub
• Healthy, rooted landscape plant
• Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Dark Knight Bluebeard
• Botanical Name: Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Dark Knight’
• Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
• Growth Stage: Established potted plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun
• Soil: Well-drained soil; tolerant of sandy and average garden soils
• Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
• Flower Color: Deep purplish blue
• Bloom Time: Late summer through fall
• Foliage: Fragrant silver-gray leaves
• Mature Height: Approximately 2 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 2 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 5–9
• Pollinator Friendly: Yes
• Container Friendly: Excellent

Care Tip

Plant in full sun for the most abundant flowering and compact growth. Prune back in early spring to encourage vigorous new growth and prolific blooms.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.