Beekeeper Blue Mist Shrub (Caryopteris) – 3 Gallon Pot

Other Names: Beekeeper Bluebeard, Blue Spirea, Beekeeper Caryopteris

A honeybee’s dream plant, and the butterflies and hummingbirds too, when there isn’t much blooming in the garden in late summer and early fall, Caryopteris, commonly called Blue Mist Shrub or Bluebeard, is there as a late-season pleaser. But Beekeeper doesn’t only please with its abundant and fluffy cloud-like clusters of nectar-rich blue flowers, it also sports colorful foliage. It is an attractive plant even before it blooms, sporting eye-catching, fragrant golden chartreuse foliage that becomes slightly greener later in the season. Forming a rounded mound to 3 feet tall and equally as wide, Beekeeper is a sensory charmer in smaller garden spaces or large containers, or in groupings or as a colorful low border or hedge in larger spaces. This low-maintenance beauty is tolerant of drought, resistant to pest and disease, and the deer turn their nose up to it in our gardens.