Plant Patent #16,371. Cultivar name: 'Mindia'. Here's one of the most exciting new crosses in recent memory — golden Ninebark 'Dark's Gold' and purple-leafed Diabolo!®! The result is a vigorous, beautifully shaped shrub with two stunning foliage colors, plenty of blooms, and showy scarlet seedheads. In other words, something new every season, and all of it very ornamental!
Coppertina™ begins its display with coppery-orange new foliage in spring. As the weather warms, the leaves begin to blush, and are soon bright red, the color they keep. With summer come the flowers — thousands upon thousands of button-like pinkish-white blooms, which remain for many weeks like so much confetti. And after the blooms finally pass, it's hard to mourn their loss, for they are immediately replaced by showy scarlet seedheads that last through autumn! When the leaves begin to fall, the attractive peeling bark is revealed, glorious in its winter silhouette. Truly a shrub that is never "out of season"!
Coppertina™ is just as easy to cultivate as other Ninebarks, thriving in full sunshine to partial shade, and happy in any reasonably well-drained garden soil. No fancy treatment for this hardy beauty — it is quite cold tolerant and is so densely branched that it makes a delightful three-season hedge as well as a fine accent planting for border or patio. Expect it to reach 8 to 10 feet tall and about 5 to 6 feet wide; space multiple Coppertinas™ about 6 feet apart for a solid line of coverage. Zones 3-8.
