Beautiful trees! Purchased 2 from New Blooms in the beginning of 2020. Now 8 to 9' tall in November 2022. (No fertilizer, just mulch and rare deep waterings a few times in the second year. Weekly to biweekly watering over the first year until well established)
Would definitely purchase again. Highly recommend the trees and New Blooms Nursery.
Beautiful, much brighter red fall color than our regular white or pink Florida dogwoods.
The few blooms already produced have been beautiful and persistent (wasn't supposed to bloom until 3rd or 4th year in the ground).
1 note, the variegation begins to fade noticeably by mid June in our humid zone 7/8 garden in Norfolk, Virginia.
Barely 2 tone green when you walk up to it by late summer.
But the underlying variegation brightens the fall color noticeably.
Only Summer Gold has maintained full yellow outer variegation into November leaf drop. But Summer Gold will remain a tiny dwarf tree. More of a pretty stick than a pretty, small shade tree.
Would definitely go with Celestial Shadow for a beautiful small shade tree.