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Beekeeper Bluebeard
Caryopteris × clandonensis 'Minigold'
Also called beekeeper and beekeeper caryopteris
Beekeeper Bluebeard blooms from August through September.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Beekeeper Bluebeard
Plant it in full sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 5–9. Expect it to reach about 2.5 ft tall and 2.5 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 4 years (a house reading).
Pets
- No toxic listing found for dogs and cats in the sources we check.
Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.
No toxicity note is on file for Beekeeper Bluebeard. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant, with what the sources could not settle written down; years to mature size rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one, and is marked so; its common name and alternate names have not been checked yet. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Beekeeper Bluebeard
Plant Beekeeper Bluebeard in early spring as soon as the soil is workable, or in early fall at least six weeks before your first frost, so roots establish in cool weather. In zone 7, the middle of its hardy zones 5 to 9, spring means March to May and fall means September or October. Once settled, it blooms from August to September.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 7, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 7 in March. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Beekeeper Bluebeard get?
2.5 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult2.5 ftwideSee Beekeeper Bluebeard in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Beekeeper Bluebeard
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Space Beekeeper Bluebeard about 2.5 ft apart, center to center, so each plant has room to reach its full width.
Add Beekeeper Bluebeard to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Beekeeper Bluebeard's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 13 published sources on October 5, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources.
- Plant Addictsheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- waysidegardens.comWayside Gardensheight, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases and toxicity
- plants.westonnurseries.comWeston Nurseries (Massachusetts; a NetPS Plant Finder entry)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, soil and pests
- bloomineasyplants.comBloomin' Easy (the brand that introduces the plant)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, bloom months and color and trait tags
- Missouri Botanical Gardenthe 'Minibleu' PETIT BLEU page; hybrid-level lines onlysun, water, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- nvknurseries.comNVK Nurseries (Dundas, Ontario, a wholesale grower)height, spread, hardiness zones, water, bloom months and color and soil
- US plant patent (Google Patents)U.S. Plant Patent PP33,874 (Google Patents; inventor Jean-Paul Davasse...height, spread, hardiness zones, bloom months and color, trait tags and diseases
- willowbrooknurseries.comWillowbrook Nurseries (Fenwick, Ontario, a wholesale grower)height, spread, hardiness zones, water, bloom months and color and pests
- NC State Extensionthe hybrid's pagesun, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- The Morton Arboretumthe hybrid's pagesun, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- greenleafnursery.comGreenleaf Nurseryheight, hardiness zones and bloom months and color
- ASPCAtoxicity
- Plant Addictsits article 'Are Bluebeard Poisonous?'toxicity
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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