Re: small ceanothus
- Subject: Re: small ceanothus
- From: david feix d*@yahoo.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:26:36 -0800 (PST)
Are you certain this is really Ceanothus 'Joyce
Coulter'? 11 inches tall after 5 years is extremely
compact for this cultivar. (Or do the deer do your
pruning for you on a regular basis?) I guess that your
hotter inland climate and/or poor,dry soil conditions
could account for this dwarfing effect, but I have
nevere seen this less than 2 foot tall by 4 to 6 foot
across after just 2~3 years here near the coast.
In my own experience with various Ceanothus cultivars,
they never stay as small/compact as the space they are
given, and usually require some regular tip pinching
to keep in bounds in a small garden situation.
--- Reid Family <pkssreid@comcast.net> wrote:
> I planted what I think was "Joyce Coulter" about 4
> or 5 years ago from a 1-gallon pot. Sunset has it
> maturing at 4-5 high and 10-12 feet wide, but I
> think in my garden that would be an ancient specimen
> indeed. It has been extremely slow growing and is
> now a tidy mound about 11 inches high and 33 inches
> across. It blooms nicely, even though it does get a
> small amount of borrowed summer water, but not more
> than once a week.
>
> Karrie Reid
> Folsom Foothill Gardener
> Zone 9
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