Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos - Part 28, 1 by evie_beevie

evie_beevie wrote:
Here's that same clethra. I planted it this year, and I got a nicely shaped and full one. It is planted just beyond the edge of my pondless "pond", and is helping ground that boulder.

Clethra leafs out REALLY late, to the point where you wonder why you have it. But then it blooms and you love it. So I recommend it, but not front and center (esp around here where it didn't *begin* to leaf out until end of May or early June!).