Garden Goods Direct | Itea Little Henry®

Itea Little Henry® (Itea virginica ‘Little Henry’) is a useful low-maintenance, compact shrub. This deer-resistant native plant offers many uses in the home landscape. Little Henry® is adwarf sweetspire variety that provides charming white summer flowers and red fall foliage. This low-maintenance shrub is shade-tolerant and wet soil tolerant. It will grow in full sun to full shade, requiring little pruning or other care. Itea virginica ‘Little Henry’ has lightly scented, purewhite flowers that shoot like fireworks in the early summer. Its mounded, low-growing stature improves it over older varieties such as the old favorite Itea ‘Henry’s Garnet’. In the Fall, the foliage of Little Henry changes to a brilliant multitude of oranges and reds. Itea Little Henry can be useful as a foundation planting or incorporated into a mixed border planting as a featured pollinator plant. This reliable shrub can even be used in a mass planting for erosion control. Little Henry’s compact size, fragrant flowers, multi-season interest and low-maintenance make it one of the most popular native shrubs on the market.