Re: pieris
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] pieris
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 03:48:37 -0500
Susan, don't know the answer to your question, but do know the white
variegated form is not as hardy as the species...managed to lose that
one and it wasn't even all that cold a winter :-( Pretty shrub,
tho'.
They are very slow growing, but if yours is the species, it can get
9' tall in about 12 or 15 years.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Susan Campanini <campanin@NTX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
> Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:34 PM
>
> I have a small white flowering pieris in my fern bed under the
maple and it
> is doing well despite being slow growing. It has been hardy for
the past
> five years, but this is a particularly cold winter for Illinois, so
we'll
> see. I am thinking about adding a small start of a red-blooming
pieris.
> Does anyone know if they are less hardy than the white ones or the
same?
>
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
