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Barberry - Ruby Carousel®
Ruby Carousel® Barberry, Berberis thunbergii 'Bailone', is a showy plant that displays an upright, rounded form along with attractive, red-purple foliage. It makes an excellent accent plant and a good barrier hedge plant because of the thorns. Ruby Carousel® Barberry prefers a moist, yet well-drained soil. Ruby Carousel® Barberry grows to about 3-4 feet high with a spread of 3 feet. It is noted for its excellent red colour and uniform habit that is low and rounded. Its stems and branches are grooved slightly and angled. A thicket of Ruby Carousels provides many landscape possibilities. ... details
Rose of Sharon-Morning Star The Morning Star Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Morning Star, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. 'Morning Star' bears grayish blue flowers with pinkish white eyes from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. |
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