Deutzia monbeigii

Deutzia monbeigii is a species of deciduous deutzia forming a small bush and offering a profusion of clusters of simple star-shaped flowers, pure white with very visible golden yellow stamens from May to July! It has the same elegant natural habit with its upright and then trailing branches, and the same rapid growth that can be found in other species of the genus. It is distinguished notably by its reddish-brown young shoots and its small leaves with finely toothed margins and a dark green colour with a white underside. It is a versatile bush that can be used as a standalone plant, in a small informal hedge, as a border or in a mixed flowerbed with other flowering species. Perfectly hardy, it adapts to both full sun and partial shade and tolerates all soils as long as they are fertile, moist and deep.

Deutzia monbeigii is a species native to southwestern China which forms a small bush with an erect habit in its early years and spreads out with age. Its flexible branches slightly arch at their tips. Its cinnamon colour bark peels off in adulthood. With rapid growth, it reaches an average size of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in all directions. The abundant flowering often starts in May and lasts a good part of June until July, almost hiding the foliage under the clusters of pure white, star-shaped flowers, with only 5 petals, fully open to reveal a heart of long golden yellow stamens. Its deciduous leaves are dark green, downy, and rough. The leaves are elongated oval to lanceolate shaped and measure only 1.20 to 2.5 cm (0.5 to 1 in) in length with finely toothed edges.

Deutzia monbeigii, just like its ancestors, is very hardy, but it dislikes drought and shallow soils. It is necessary to protect its beautiful flowering from scorching sun and strong winds. This very beautiful bush will find a place as a standalone plant in a small garden or in an informal, flowering, or mixed hedge, associated with other flowering shrubs with staggered flowering such as landscape shrub roses, buddleias, lilacs, mock oranges, spireas, flowering crabapples or other hawthorns. It also forms beautiful combinations with evergreen foliage such as conifers, Elaeagnus ebbingei, Photinia, Mexican orange trees...