Clethra fargesii 24/11 Restock or down a shady bank

or down a shady bank

The genus honors Solomon White Conrad

They came to us through Michael Dirr's evaluations of the best forms

and as the season cools the foliage turns a rich red and bronze

or sprawling over a low wall

Clethra fargesii 24/11 Restock or down a shady bankClethra fargesii is the Chinese cousin of our native summersweets, a graceful deciduous shrub from the mountain woodlands of central and western China, gathered and named for the French missionary botanist Paul Farges. Kin to the better known Clethra barbinervis, the Chinese clethra stays a little shorter and carries dark, glossy green leaves, broadest through the middle and sharply toothed, that color bronze red to maroon before they fall. The