Miss Scarlett Florida Anise (Illicium Floridanum) – 3 Gallon Pot

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Miss Scarlett Florida Anise

Illicium floridanum ‘Miss Scarlett’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub

Height at Maturity: 5-6′

Width at Maturity: 4′

Spacing: 3.5′ for solid hedge; 7’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Rounded

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Red

Flower Size: 1″ diameter

Flowering Period: Spring

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Berries/Pods: Yes

Pod Color: Reddish Brown

Fragrant Foliage: Yes

Sun Needs: Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Shade or Mostly Shade

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

Soil pH: 4.5 – 6.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Shade

Description

New and distinctive, ‘Miss Scarlet’ is a more compact Florida Anise that produces lots more flowers and larger leaves than the species. Abundant, octopus-shaped scarlet-red flowers are borne at the ends of stems in spring. Miss Scarlett’s anise-scented evergreen leaves are larger than other Illicium floridanum cultivars, and more rounded when young becoming pointed with age. At 5 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide when all grown up, Miss Scarlet grows to about half the size of the species so is a better fit for smaller garden spaces. A fine evergreen flowering shrub for shade and consistently moist soils.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 5 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, ‘Miss Scarlet’ Anise is ideal for use in the landscape as a specimen or accent, in groupings or as a natural hedge in shady to partially shaded landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, shade gardens, red theme gardens, and North American native plant gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3.5 feet apart for solid hedges; 7 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Anise is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring

Growing Preferences

‘Miss Scarlet’ Anise is very easy to grow in organically rich, moist but well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. For best appearance and performance we recommend some shade in the afternoon. Maintenance is minimal except for a snipping here or there of a stray branch. That said, plants can be clipped to control height or to maintain as a hedge.

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Received 3 gal Illicium in good condition, well packed, and promptly shipped.———————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG