Buttonbush vs Tzim Pee Tao Peach - TreeTime.ca

Buttonbush vs Tzim Pee Tao Peach

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Prunus persica Tzim Pee Tao Peach

CUSTOM GROW

COMING SOON

(new stock expected: fall of 2025)

Buttonbush
Tzim Pee Tao Peach

Buttonbush is a moisture loving shrub that provides year round interest.

It has round, fragrant flowers resembling small buttons or pincushions. The flowers transform into small reddish-brown fruit that persists into winter while the leaves take on shades of red in fall.

Providing essential food to bees, butterflies, and other insects, this shrub is versatile. Try it in your next shrub border.

Tzim Pee Tao Peach (TPT) is a very cold hardy peach cultivar. The taste and form of these peaches is reported to be similar to the other cold hardy peach varieties.

This variety is resistant to powdery mildew, but has a shorter window to accept successful budding and chipping. Because it is relatively uniform in height and stem diameter when young, it is easy to work with in orchard production. This variety has a strong taproot.

Many find this rootstock to be both hardy and higher yielding than others This is a favourite choice for those in the BC interior and in Southern Ontario. The Tzim Pee Tao Peach (TPT) is considered to be true to seed.

Buttonbush Quick Facts

Tzim Pee Tao Peach Quick Facts

Zone: 4a
Zone: 4a
Height: 2.4 m (8 ft)
Height: 4 m (12 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 4 m (12 ft)
Light: any
Light: full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: medium
Life span: long
Life span: short
Suckering: low
Suckering: medium
Maintenance: medium
Maintenance: medium


Fall colour: red, orange, yellow
Flowers: large, white, spherical
Flowers: pink
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no