Spring Frost Distylium – 3 Gallon Pot

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. Very adaptable, Distyliums 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.

Befitting its name, ‘Spring Frost’ is a lower growing Distylium that sports outstanding white new growth that lights up the landscape. A member of the witch hazel family, petite red flowers emerge along the branches in late winter before new leaves emerge. No other evergreen plant we’ve seen looks like Spring Frost Distyilium so it’s sure to be a standout in your landscape!

Growing 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide, Spring Frost Distylium is an ideal selection as an accent, in groupings, or in staggered or straight rows as a hedge in home foundation plantings and landscape borders. It is also very useful in mass plantings to dress up embankments, hillsides and slopes and where it’s roots do an excellent job stabilizing soil for erosion control. A fine addition to white theme gardens.

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Distylium variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.