6 Mount Airy Fothergilla Live Plants

Fragrant White Spring Flowers | Brilliant Fall Color

Create a beautiful, colorful landscape with six Mount Airy Fothergilla plants! This attractive deciduous shrub is prized for its showy, honey-scented white bottlebrush flowers in spring and spectacular fall foliage in shades of red, orange, and yellow.

During summer, the shrub displays attractive blue-green leaves. In autumn, the foliage transforms into a colorful display that makes this plant a wonderful choice for mixed shrub borders, informal hedges, and foundation plantings.

This listing includes SIX live plants, each approximately 10–18 inches tall.

Plant Details

• Common name: Mount Airy Fothergilla

• Botanical name: Fothergilla 'Mount Airy'

• Quantity: 6 live plants

• Plant type: Deciduous flowering shrub

• Plant size shipped: Approximately 10–18 inches tall per plant

• Container: Deep pots

• Mature size: Approximately 3–6 feet tall and wide

• Growth rate: Slow-growing

• Flower color: White

• Flower fragrance: Honey-scented

• Fall foliage: Red, orange, and yellow

• Summer foliage: Blue-green

• USDA hardiness zones: 5–9

Beautiful Flowers and Fall Foliage

Mount Airy Fothergilla offers three seasons of attractive garden interest:

Spring: Showy white bottlebrush-shaped flowers with a lovely honey fragrance.

Summer: Attractive blue-green foliage adds texture and color to the garden.

Fall: Leaves develop brilliant shades of red, orange, and yellow for a spectacular autumn display.

The flowers attract bees and other pollinators.

Growing Conditions

• Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade

• Soil: Moist, organically rich, acidic, well-drained soil

• Water: Prefers consistent moisture

• Hardiness: USDA Zones 5–9

Fothergilla performs best in soil that stays evenly moist without becoming waterlogged. It can be sensitive to drought, especially while establishing. Once established, it becomes more drought-tolerant.

Garden Uses

• Mixed shrub borders

• Informal hedges

• Foundation plantings

• Pollinator gardens

• Seasonal color gardens

• Ornamental landscape plantings

This deer-resistant shrub can also spread gradually through root suckers. These suckers may be removed if you prefer to maintain a more defined shape.

About Mount Airy Fothergilla

Mount Airy is a cultivated selection associated with two southeastern U.S. native species: Fothergilla major and Fothergilla gardenii. It combines attractive spring flowers with colorful autumn foliage, making it a wonderful ornamental shrub.

Plant and Shipping Information

• Quantity: 6 live plants

• Shipping size: Approximately 10–18 inches tall per plant

• Growing container: Deep pots

• Growing method: Grown from tissue culture

• Plant inspection: Plants are inspected for quality before shipment.

• Shipping: Free to most locations.

We cannot ship to Alaska, Hawaii, APO addresses, U.S. territories, or locations considered remote without a freight surcharge.

Plants include detailed planting, growing, and care instructions. You are welcome to call or email with additional questions.

Temperature protection: If temperatures are warmer than 89°F or colder than 20°F, we will hold the order until conditions improve.

If your plants arrive damaged, please contact us promptly with photographs of the package and plants so we can help resolve the issue.

Scenic Hill Farm is a licensed Oregon nursery.