Re: Shrub suggestion
- Subject: Re: Shrub suggestion
- From: D* G*
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:15:25 -0400
An unpruned Spirea 'Little Princess' looks better than 'Snowmound' for
several reasons-- the spent inflorescences are attractive and look
especially good in winter. The habit is dense and naturally forms a tight
even mound without pruning, and the foliage texture is much finer. Not open
from the base, though.
One of the compact cultivars of inkberry--Ilex glabra--'Shamrock,'
'Compacta,' etc.--might fit the bill. I suspect that these may eventually
grow larger than advertised, but their growth is moderately sedate. These
would be "low pruning" rather than "no pruning." (Fast growth and small size
are mutually exclusive requirements, but this plant comes close to the happy
medium.) Inkberry tends to open up at the base.
No shrub will establish reliably in Ohio's climate without irrigation in
times of drought for the first two summers, but both of these are fine
without irrigation once established.
Both of these are available at most garden centers.
Unless you're wealthy, a Chamaecyparis hedge would be prohibitively
expensive.
---Don Galbreath
> From: Karen Butner <abtrlife@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: woodyplants@mallorn.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:41:00 -0400
> To: woodyplants@mallorn.com
> Subject: Shrub suggestion
>
> 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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