Jewel Box Distylium
Distylium hybrid ‘BLDY01’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 2-3′
Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 3′ for solid hedges; 7’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Spreading, Mounding
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: Red
Flower Size: .25″
Flowering Period: Winter/Late Winter
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Blue-Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sandy (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Consistently Moist
Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acidic)
Maintenance / Care: Very Low
Attracts:
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, Consistently Moist Soil
Description
Every once in a while, maybe once in a decade, a new plant comes along that has everything we look for in a hardy and reliable evergreen flowering shrub. Very adaptable, Distyliums, also known as Evergreen Witch Hazel, grow well in sun or part shade and will tolerate dry or wet soils when established, which can’t be said about many shrubs. Heat and humidity don’t phase the plants. We’ve seen no problems with insects and disease and deer turn their nose up to it. In landscape design, Distyliums are a great alternative for boxwood, laurels, holly and juniper in sunny to partially shaded home foundation plantings, landscape borders, and as a soil stabilizer on embankments and slopes.
‘Jewel Box’ is a compact Distylium with a rounded form and fine texture. Arching stems are loaded with soft, blue-green leaves. A very nice alternative to boxwood, inkberry, or small-leaved holly. A perfect plant for home foundation plantings. A member of the witch hazel family, it produces petite red flowers that appear in late winter. No other plant we’ve seen looks like Jewel Box Distyilium so it’s sure to be a standout in your landscape!
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in a rounded form that reaches 2 to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide, Jewel Box Distylium is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings, or as a staggered or straight row hedge planting in home foundation plantings and landscape borders. It is also very useful in mass plantings to dress up embankments, hillsides and slopes and where its roots do an excellent job stabilizing soil for erosion control.
Spacing Suggestions: 3 feet for solid hedges; 8 feet or more for space between plants
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Growing Preferences
Exceptionally adaptable, Jewel Box Distylium is very easy to grow in most any moist to moderately drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. It tolerates wet soils better than many other evergreen shrubs but is also tolerant of dry soil conditions when established. We have Distyliums growing in sites that receive 4 hours and up to 8 hours of direct sunlight per day and plants do equally well. That said, the plants in more sun might be a little more dense. Maintenance is minimal unless you want a more formal shape or hedge, which will require some pruning.
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