Leycesteria form. 'Purple rain'

Category: Deciduous

Medium-sized deciduous shrub with bushy upright growth and beautiful blue-green young twigs. It blooms from June to September with white flowers and purple bracts on hanging flower panicles. In the fall it produces fragrant purple-red berries, which later turn black. Leycesteria likes a position in partial shade or sun, can be used in all soil types and is also fairly drought tolerant and attracts bees and butterflies.