Enchanted Forest® Gay Goblin™ Pieris

Enchanted Forest® Gay Goblin™ PierisWine red new growth and cascading white bell flowers turn this evergreen Pieris into a year round anchor for the shade edge garden. The Enchanted Forest Gay Goblin Pieris (Pieris japonica 'Cabernet') is a broadleaf evergreen shrub prized for its season long color story. In early spring, drooping chains of small, urn shaped white flowers spill from the branch tips like strings of tiny lanterns. As the blooms fade, the real signature appears: glossy new

Wine-red new growth and cascading white bell flowers turn this evergreen Pieris into a year-round anchor for the shade-edge garden.

The Enchanted Forest® Gay Goblin™ Pieris (Pieris japonica 'Cabernet') is a broadleaf evergreen shrub prized for its season-long color story. In early spring, drooping chains of small, urn-shaped white flowers spill from the branch tips like strings of tiny lanterns. As the blooms fade, the real signature appears: glossy new foliage that emerges a deep cabernet-red before maturing to lustrous dark green, giving the plant fresh color flushes through the growing season. With an upright, slightly arching habit reaching 5 to 7 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide, it holds its leaves all winter, so the structure and shine never disappear.

Why growers choose the Gay Goblin™ Pieris

• Two seasons of color in one plant. Early-spring white bell flowers are followed by wine-red new growth that lights up the shrub again as the leaves push out.
• Evergreen all year. Glossy dark-green foliage stays on the plant through winter, providing structure and screening when deciduous neighbors are bare.
• Genuinely deer resistant. Pieris is among the most reliably deer-avoided evergreens, making it a dependable choice for browse-prone properties.
• Easy in part shade. It thrives at the woodland edge and in dappled light where many flowering shrubs struggle, hardy in USDA zones 6 to 8.
• Tidy, slow, predictable habit. A slow growth rate and naturally upright form mean it keeps its shape with very little pruning.

Use it as a glossy evergreen anchor in a foundation planting, layered into a shaded mixed border alongside azaleas, rhododendrons, and ferns, or grouped as an informal screen along a woodland edge. It pairs beautifully with other acid-loving companions and brings welcome winter presence to any part-shade corner.