Bottlebrush buckeye is best planted in spring or fall to avoid hot and dry summer weather in your location. Dig a hole twice as wide and with the same depth as the plant’s nursery container.

Unfortunately, there are no effective treatments for root rot in landscape plants. A drier year will be helpful to these plants. Do not replant bottlebrush bushes in that same location.

A shrubby cousin of the better-known Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra), this one forms a large, colonizing shrub that will grow up to 10-feet tall or more in light to moderate shade.