Description
HARDINESS ZONE.7-9 GROW.Pot them up into individual pots and keep them in light shade in a cold frame or greenhouse until they are rooting well. Plant them out in the summer. WHEN TO PLANT.The best time is November; however, you can plant as early as September and as late as December FEATURE.Bright red when young, later dark green. Clusters of creamy-white flowers appear in spring if left unpruned. USE. Borders and woodland gardens. Specimen. Hedge. Screen. Fraser’s Photinia is a large, evergreen shrub or small tree that grows up to 20′ tall. This plant blooms in mid-spring, after P. serratifolia and before P. glabra. This plant is also intermediate in size between the two. Fraser Photinia’s fetid blooms are offensive to many people. New foliage is a colorful reddish-bronze, and reddish buds are visible most of the year. This plant is alkaline tolerant, and drought and salt spray tolerant. Additional pruning may encourage new flushes of red leaves in late spring and summer. Small, 5-petaled, white flowers (1/3″ across) of this rose family shrub bloom in late April in wide, corymbose panicles (to 5-6″ long). Flowers have a very unpleasant aroma, somewhat reminiscent of hawthorns. Flowers may be eliminated by spring pruning geared to stimulate new red leaf growth. Fruit is a red pome that persists throughout winter to spring.
- HARDINESS ZONE.7-9.
- WHEN TO PLANT.The best time is November; however, you can plant as early as September and as late as December.
- FEATURE.Bright red when young, later dark green. Clusters of creamy-white flowers appear in spring if left unpruned.
- USE. Borders and woodland gardens. Specimen. Hedge. Screen.
