Ruby Spice Summersweet - Fragrant Native Flowering Shrub in 4 Inch Pot
Add vibrant summer color and sweet fragrance to your landscape with Ruby Spice Summersweet, a native deciduous flowering shrub known for its rich reddish-pink flower spikes that retain their color throughout the blooming season. This fragrant shrub attracts butterflies and beneficial pollinators, making it an excellent choice for pollinator-friendly gardens.
Ruby Spice Summersweet is deer resistant and offers attractive yellow fall foliage, providing multi-season interest in woodland gardens, foundation plantings, rain gardens, and mixed shrub borders. It thrives in full sun to partial sun and prefers moist, acidic, well-draining soil with moderate watering.
This listing includes one healthy, rooted Ruby Spice Summersweet starter plant shipped in a 4 inch nursery pot, ready to establish in your garden. The plant grows moderately to a mature height and width of approximately 3 to 6 feet and is suitable for USDA zones 4 through 9. It is also container friendly.
Growing Information:
Botanical Name: Clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’
Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial sun
Soil: Moist, acidic, well-draining
Watering: Moderate, prefers evenly moist soil
Mature Size: 3–6 feet tall and wide
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 4–9
Container Friendly: Yes
Care Tip: Plant in consistently moist soil for best flowering and foliage health. Deadheading spent blooms is optional to maintain a tidy appearance.
Plant Condition Disclosure
Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.
Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.
Important Note
You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.
Customer Notice for Live Plants
Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.
Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.
Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.
- Photos of the shipping box
- Photo of the shipping label
- Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
- Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant
Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.
Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.
