Mexican Orange Blossom, Sundance
Choisya ternata “Sundance”

Mexican Orange Blossom is a highly hardy evergreen shrub that grows with little care into a dome-shaped form. It most often reaches 6 feet by 6 feet, but can sometimes reach 8 feet in height. It enjoys full sun and can also excel as an understory shrub. “Sundance” exhibits a light-green, almost yellow coloration in the leaves. The lighter, sunny coloration appears to sweep across the shrub in an irregular pattern. The white blooms emit a light fragrance in the spring that are highly attractive to bees, birds, and butterflies. The shrub is at its best from August to June and will often re-bloom in the fall when the heat has abated. Sundance is viable across USDA zone 7 to 9b. It is highly underused as a landscape plant and should be used to replace many of the more traditional and boring plants used for foundation planting in central Texas. Beautiful coloration, drought-tolerant and no cold die-back from those sudden cold snaps experienced in our region.
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