This shrub has upright arching canes with peeling grey-brown bark and forms a bushy habit that may become open and straggly with age. It has dull green broad-ovate leaves and the white cup-shaped flowers appear in clusters during early summer.

Hardiness zones 5 to 10

Deutzia scabrais naturally found from Japan and China growing in an open sunny open position in moderately moist, but well drained fertile soils and is drought tender but frost tolerant.

Fuzzy Deutzia is grown for its flowers and is planted in shrub borders for screening or as a specimen plant in small gardens. It is suitable for coastal or mountain gardens establishing in 2 to 3 years. ID 1945

Deutzia(DOOT-zee-uh) scabra(SKAY-bruh)

Hydrangeaceae(hy-drain-jee-AY-see-ee)
Hydrangea and Mock Orange Family