Pink Lady Indian Hawthorn

Moderate to fast-growing evergreen shrub with a rounded growth-habit to 4-6’ tall and wide. Indian Hawthorn has long been a popular landscape favorite revered for its durability and dependable flower display. This attractive and versatile variety features bronzy-red-tinged new foliage maturing to a rich dark-green and is accented with abundant clusters of dark-pink flowers that cloak this long-blooming variety spring into summer attracting bees. Following flowering appear small berry-like dark-blue fruit though they are mostly inconspicuous. Well-suited as a foundation planting in mixed borders as an accent mass planting hedge or container specimen and can be pruned into a small patio tree. This species is drought tolerant but looks best with a light regular watering schedule. Prefers a well-drained soil in a full to partial sun exposure. Best flowering and growth-habit will occur in a full sun exposure.

Moderate to fast-growing evergreen shrub with a rounded growth-habit to 4-6’ tall and wide. Indian Hawthorn has long been a popular landscape favorite revered for its durability and dependable flower display. This attractive and versatile variety features bronzy-red-tinged new foliage maturing to a rich dark-green and is accented with abundant clusters of dark-pink flowers that cloak this long-blooming variety spring into summer. Well-suited as a foundation planting in mixed borders as an accent mass planting hedge or container specimen and can be pruned into a small patio tree. This species is drought tolerant but looks best with a light regular watering schedule. Prefers a well-drained soil in a full to partial sun exposure. Best flowering and growth-habit will occur in a full sun exposure.Rhaphiolepis indica ‘Pink Lady’ in the Indian Hawthorn family is a hybrid Rhaphiolepis shrub that grows 5 to 6 feet tall and as wide. ‘Pink Lady’ prefers full sun to light shade but once established it is drought tolerant. ‘Pink Lady’ is a fast-growing shrub producing fragrant dark pink flowers over a long blooming period. They’re grown for showy color dark leathery leaves and for durability.  These attributes all combine to make it a popular evergreen specimen plant an informal hedge or screen. As with some of the other Rhaphiolepis indicas the leaves color begins in bronze and burgundy and then mature to dark green. ‘Pink Lady’ thrives in many climates where it is known as a low maintenance shrub.