Corokia x virgata 'Orangerie' trees the purple stalks topped with

the purple stalks topped with spathes of green and purple stripes folded over and showing the dark

over time to 10ft tall by 10ft wide

Hummingbird magnet

With effort these can be "naturalized" into attractive winter patches in the garden

Frost hardy to -40F

Corokia x virgata 'Orangerie' trees the purple stalks topped withA Cistus introduction. Though we would like to say this lovely plant is a result of years of careful hybridization under tightly controlled circumstances, we actually found it growing on the floor of one of the greenhouses as a tiny seedling. This grows as other C. x virgata forms, to a 6 8 ft shrub, but with a more upright form and butter yellow aging copper orange leaves with reflective, nearly white, undersides. In the garden, some summer water,