The flowers of white, pink or rose appear when few other plants are blooming in July through August. It has few insect and disease problems but thrives best in moist acidic soils. Rosea' has glossy leaves and pink flowers. Bottlebrush buckeye , Aesculus parviflora, also offers summer flowers and prefers shady locations. It makes an excellent specimen plant or as a massed planting.
Bottlebrush buckeye is native to Georgia and Alabama.
Its spreading multistems reach 9-12 feet high and 15 feet wide, which gives it an interesting winter form. Bottlebrush buckeye has flowers resembling its name with large white panicles 8-12 inches long and 4 inches wide in July and August. In flower, buckeyes are real car stoppers. Spicebush , Lindera benzoin, is another native shrub with interesting flowers. Although the greenish yellow flowers are much smaller than the buckeyes, they are flowering now in April before the leaves and may last for 3-4 weeks.