Deutzia pulchra

The Deutzia pulchra is a hardy species attractive for its beautiful spring flowering in clusters of pure white bell-shaped flowers, slightly tinged with pink and with prominent golden yellow stamens. It is a deciduous bush of medium size with upright branches that reveal, once the foliage has fallen, a bark that peels off in coppery flakes and a cinnamon-coloured trunk that is very decorative. Little known, this bush deserves to be used more for its ease to grow in all slightly deep, not too poor, fresh and well-drained soils. Requiring little maintenance, it is a good choice for a natural or romantic style garden. Use it to lighten up the background of a flower bed or a slightly dark hedge, or to dominate a corner of a terrace on its own, where you can admire its brightly coloured bark in winter from the house!

The Deutzia pulchra is a species native to Taiwan and the Philippines. The Deutzia pulchra forms a large bush with an upright habit. Its flexible branches slightly arch at their ends. Its bark, cinnamon in colour, peels off in adulthood. It grows rapidly, reaching an average height of 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in) and a width of 2 m. The abundant flowering often starts in May and lasts for a good part of June, almost hiding the foliage under the trailing and single panicles of flowers. They are pure white, sometimes slightly tinged with pink. Its deciduous leaves are a dull medium green, pubescent and rough. The leaves, with elongated oval to lanceolate shape, measure up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in length and have serrated edges.

The Deutzia magnifica, just like its ancestors, is very hardy, but it fears drought and shallow soils. It is necessary to protect its beautiful flowering from scorching sun and strong winds. This very beautiful bush will find its place as a standalone plant in a medium to large garden or in a free, flowering, or mixed hedge, associated with other flowering shrubs with staggered flowering such as landscape roses, buddleias, lilacs, mock oranges, spireas, flowering apple trees, or other hawthorns. It also forms beautiful combinations with evergreen foliage plants such as conifers, Elaeagnus ebbingei, Photinia, Mexican orange trees.