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[SHADEGARDENS] Symphorocarpus in the Shade -Reply

Someone wrote:

They get a little dappled
sun in afternoon.  Do you think they need
more sun than that?  I also noticed
they root wherever the branches hang down to
the ground so they might spread
out of the area I want them in. Can they get
invasive?  I planted them because
I heard they were good for the birds.  I also put
in S. orbiculatus
(coralberry) for the same reason just last year.
Does it need same culture as
snowberry? Behave same as snowberry?

Mine flowered and fruited right away, as a one
gallon shrub.  Perhaps yours needs a little more
maturity?  The conditions you're growing them
in sounds perfect.  Soil acidic enough?

They do sucker diligently, not rampantly.  I
believe the coralberry has the same
requirements and will find out this year for
myself.  The only other thing I can think of
would be they were not getting pollinated by
bees, but if you don't have flowers (they are
very small and fairly insignificant - in fact I'm
not sure I'd notice them if it weren't for the
bees!) you definitely are not going to have fruit.

Some plants are not actually dioecious (needing
male and female) but are noted for fruiting
more heavily with two of the same plants, like
some viburnums.  I don't ever remember
reading that about snowberry, but perhaps
that's the case.
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