Summer Wine® Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Seward'
5-6 feet high x 5-6 feet wide
Upright rounded shape
Zone 2
Full Sun to Part Shade
Beautiful deep burgundy foliage all season long on arching stems with pinkish-white flower clusters in early summer provide a stunning accent in the sunny shrub border. Tolerates alkaline ground but not salt in its irrigation water.
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death.