![]() ![]() ![]() Botanical Name: Abelia x grandiflora Kaleidoscope PPAF. A low, compact selection for patio containers or massing as a groundcover. United States Plant Patent #PP16,988 awarded August 15, 2006. Bright, golden yellow variegation on medium green leaves along with brilliant red stems create a striking kaleidoscope of color. Its smaller size makes it suitable for growing in patio containers. Will prove semi-evergreen, rather than evergreen, in colder spots. The foliage colours of yellow and green deepen as the season progresses taking on a orange and red hue in autumn. ![]() Its pink buds open into white fragrant flowers that persist into fall. Kaleidoscope is a dwarf, variegated shrub that bears pink-tinted, white, fragrant flowers in summer and autumn. The coloration is most vibrant when the shrub is grown in full sun. 'Kaleidoscope' is a dense, semi-evergreen, compact shrub with reddish purple stems and foliage that emerges green and yellow, turns gold in summer, and fiery red to orange for fall and winter. 'Kaleidoscope' was discovered by Kent Bell of Marshville, North Carolina in 1997 as a variegated branch sport of Abelia x grandiflora 'Little Richard'. Clark Abel (1789-1826), English naturalist and physician. Ovate, glossy, dark green leaves (to 1.25" long) turn purplish-bronze in autumn. Features clusters of white-tinged-pink, bell-shaped flowers (to 3/4" long) which appear in the upper leaf axils and stem ends over a long and continuous late spring to fall bloom period. In years where the stems die to the ground in winter but the plant survives, flowering will still occur, but on smaller plants that typically reach a height of only 1-1.5'. Louis area, but usually taller (to 6' tall ) in the warm winter climates of the South (USDA Zones 8-9). Typically grows on gracefully arching branches to 2-4' tall in the St. It is a rounded, spreading, multi-stemmed shrub in the honeysuckle family. Abelia × grandiflora is a cross between A. ![]()
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