Re: Shrub suggestion
- Subject: Re: Shrub suggestion
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:00:35 -0400
What about
-Viburnum opulus 'Nanum - 1-2' tall by 1-4' wide; 5' max (rarely
flowers but if it does, the are white).
small plant habit:
http://www.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/viopn1.htm
old, large plant habit:
http://www.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/viopn0.htm
-Ribes alpinum 'Green Mound - 2-3' tall by 2-3' wide
-One of the dwarf form barberries, like:
Berberis thunbergii 'Crimson pygmy' - 1.5-2' tall by 2.5-3' wide
purple foliage
Berberis thunbergii 'Kobold' - 2-2.5' tall by 2-2.5' wide - green
foliage
Berberis thunbergii 'Aurea' - 3-4' tall by 3-4' wide - gold
foliage; colors best in sun
http://www.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/bethau1.htm
All three of these barberries have about the same habit as this
image. All barberries make the most interesting tiny flowers, but
they are quite thorny.
-Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana - 3' tall by 3-5' wide - slow grower,
evergreen.
-Ilex crenata 'Helleri' - no flowers - ultimately 5' x 5', but that
takes quite a few years. I'm personally very fond of this holly -
evergreen with a mounding habit. Does not require pruning, although
I nip mine back here and there to keep a neat mound as they sometimes
stick a branch or two out farther than I want them to for my
purposes. Branches mound to the ground, so it wouldn't answer your
clear up 10" requirement, but quite lovely, undemanding shrub.
http://www.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/ilcrh1.htm
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Karen Butner <abtrlife@earthlink.net>
>
> Does anybody have suggestions for a shrub with the following
> requirements? Provided there is such a thing. :-)
>
> Full sun
> 3-4' max height and width
> no pruning
> hopefully open from the base up to maybe 10"
> only water source will be rain
> will be in unamended soil (what is currently growing there is doing
> great despite this)
> hopefully something common enough to be found at a local nursery
> won't grow at a snail's pace
> can be deciduous or evergreen
> zone 5a
>
> This will be used to make an L shaped hedge at my mother's house.
She
> currently has Euyonomous (Burning Bush) there, but is tired of the
> pruning required. She is unable to do the work herself, doesn't
want to
> put any more burden on my sister or me, and has had no success with
> hiring out the pruning (as in butchering). I can think of boxwood
and
> spirea. She thought maybe Snowmound spirea or Itea virginica "Henry
> Garret', but they may end up bigger than she wants. Any other
thoughts?
>
> TIA
> Karen
> z5a, north central Ohio
>
>
>
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