Aesculus parviflora var. serotina Drought Tolerant Two things the common names

Two things the common names get wrong: it is not Chinese

where winters bite

hummingbird bush shrugs off heat and drought once established and asks for little

when Walter Swingle crossed a Ruby orange with the tough

finely toothed

Aesculus parviflora var. serotina Drought Tolerant Two things the common namesA wide spreading, suckering, multi stemmed deciduous shrub of slow, deliberate growth, Aesculus parviflora var. serotina carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye, but opens them two to three weeks later, well into the heat of summer. The overall shape is irregular and almost stratified, the branches layering horizontally, and the medium to dark green leaves turn a clear yellow in fall. The late bloom is the point.