Clethra alnifolia ‘Hummingbird’ Richard Lynch and when their fruit ripens

and when their fruit ripens in late spring it drops straight into the water and floats

in the nursery trade

Give the plants lean

the great citrus authority of the day

carried on glossy evergreen foliage and the easy autumn-into-winter habit that makes the sasanquas such dependable garden shrubs

Clethra alnifolia ‘Hummingbird’ Richard Lynch and when their fruit ripensSummersweet, or sweet pepperbush, is one of the most useful of the native shrubs for moist, shaded ground, and 'Hummingbird' is the compact, free flowering selection that made the species a garden staple. Like the straight Clethra alnifolia, this is a stoloniferous deciduous shrub that forms colonies in moist, acid soil, valued above all for the upright spikes of intensely fragrant white flowers that perfume the whole garden in the heat of summer,