Re: Nandina domestica
Hello Marge,
Thanks for the tips on Nandina. I realize they are borderline around
here, but have seen them make it most years. The area I intend to landscape
is protected. East side of my home will give them protection from prevailing
weather from the west. Also there is a woods about 200 feet from the house
on that side and two shade trees in the yard on that side. Intention is to
fudge a bit with a hopefully micro environment favorable to them.
Three individuals have written off line with tips on sources and
suggestions on individual named cultivors. Will get back to you when I have
a bit more homework on these shrubs put together.
Thanks, Gene
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Marge Talt <mtalt@CLARK.NET>
Subject: Re: [SG] Nandina domestica
snip....
> I've had N. domestica for...hmmmm...at least 10 years and maybe longer.
It
> flowers and berries most years. In harsh winters, it has died back to the
> ground but come back for me from the roots. This one is growing in quite
a
> bit of shade, but gets a glimpse of some sun through tree branches
> overhead. It was a piece from a shrub of my Moms. Her shrub was huge.
> Mine has never gotten as big in girth as hers, tho' it has reached the
same
> height. I put this down to its having died back at least three or four
> times since I planted it. She's in northern AL, half a zone warmer than
> I...and that half zone makes a whale of a lot of difference to some
plants.
>
> Year before last, I put the dwarf N. 'Fire Power' (obtained at local
> nursery, Gene) in my west border - almost total shade and quite dry in
> summer. It seems to be doing quite well - no winter die back; maintains
> its nice size and even colorful foliage...no flowers or berries, but I'm
> not even sure this one does flower.
>
> Gene, good old Forestfarm has 'Fire Power' in tubes for $5.95 (you'd have
> to wait a couple of years for it to be as large as local nurseries usually
> carry) plus they have another dwarf, 'Woods Dwarf', said to make an 18"
> mound....
>
> http://www.forestfarm.com/search/bygenus.asp
>
> This is the URL to their Nandina page...hope it works as it's a search
> result and sometimes they are tricky....
>
> This spring, was given by net buddy, a piece of one of her plants - tall
> one with a name that I duly wrote down somewhere, but I'll be blessed if I
> can think where. It was practically yanked out of the ground; lost a lot
> of roots. I potted it up; it dropped lots of leaves, I cut it back. It
> put out new growth and, still in the pot, danged if it isn't making flower
> buds....She was growing this out in the open in VA, near Mt. Vernon; some
> south of me.
>
> Dirr rates Nandina from zones 6 to 9...I'd say 6 with protection, myself,
> based on winter performance when it gets cold here....and it never gets
> -25F here. They do not seem fazed in the least by heat and look just fine
> right now, during our hideous, horrible, hot, sticky, dry summer when many
> other things look like they have had the course.
>
> I'd say your cold winters, Bobbi, may make it hard to keep Nandina, except
> in a pot...and they will grow in pots.
>
> Marge
> where it hit 101F today, oh joy NOT!
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@clark.net
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