Add year-round beauty and native charm to your landscape with Dwarf Fothergilla, a compact deciduous shrub prized for its fragrant spring blooms, attractive summer foliage, and brilliant fall color display. In mid to late spring, this ornamental shrub produces creamy white honey-scented bottlebrush flowers before the leaves emerge, creating a striking early-season display. During autumn, the foliage transforms into vivid shades of orange, red, and yellow, bringing exceptional seasonal color to the garden.

Its naturally rounded growth habit makes it perfect for woodland gardens, foundation plantings, borders, pollinator landscapes, and mass plantings in smaller spaces. Easy to grow and low maintenance, Dwarf Fothergilla is also resistant to many common pests and diseases. These healthy plants are shipped established in 1 gallon nursery pots and are ready to thrive in the landscape.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Dwarf Fothergilla
✔️ 1 gallon pot plant
✔️ Fragrant flowering native shrub
✔️ Brilliant fall foliage color
✔️ Healthy, rooted landscape plant
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Dwarf Fothergilla
Botanical Name: Fothergilla gardenii
Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
Growth Stage: Established potted plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil: Acidic, moist, well-draining soil
Watering: Moderate; prefers evenly moist soil
Mature Height: Approximately 2–3 feet
Mature Width: Approximately 2–3 feet
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 5–8
Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Plant in acidic soil for healthiest foliage and strongest seasonal color. Full sun encourages the most vibrant autumn foliage, while partial shade helps protect plants in warmer climates.

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.