Pieris, Interstella #3

Pieris japonica Interstella® Distinctive, rich color makes Interstella shrub out of this world! Forgive us for using maybe too many superlatives, but this plant earns them. Interstella Pieris Japonica plant is one of the earliest blooming plants, starting its display of beautiful, bell-like, ruby-colored flowers before the calendar (and the weather!) even say its spring. And there are hundreds of them, dangling delicately from fine stems against a gorgeous evergreen backdrop, making it a standout evergreen flowering shrub for shade. The flowers persist for a very long time - two months or more, often - and when they are done, the plant begins a dazzling display of star-like bright red new growth. So, obviously, it's beautiful, but there's more: this is possibly the most shade tolerant flowering shrub, blooming well even in very low light conditions, and it's deer resistant, too.