Catalog Description
Beautiful evergreen shrub with attractive white flowers followed by long-lasting clusters of brilliant red fruit. Useful as dense hedge or screen, can be trained into a small tree. Full sun. Moderate grower to 8 to 10 feet tall and wide. Cutting grown.
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Design Ideas
A stunning hedge with a show of white flower clusters and, later, red berries. A fine specimen or component of a mixed border.
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Companion Plants
Jazz up the fall color scheme by contrasting this Cotoneaster`s red berries with such small, fiery trees as Royal Purple Smoke Tree (Cotinus coggygria `Royal Purple`) or Laceleaf Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina `Laciniata`).
Low bloomers like Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata `Emerald Blue`) pair well with the dark green leaves.
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate grower to 8 to 10 ft. tall and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Beautiful evergreen shrub with clusters of attractive white flowers followed by long-lasting, brilliant red fruit. Useful as dense hedge or screen, can be trained into a small tree. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Arching |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 9 (>120 to 150 days) |
| Low: | 4 (>14 to 30 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 9 (20 to 30 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 7 (0 to 10 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Once established needs only occasional water. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Clusters of saucer shaped flowers
| Flower Color |
| White |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| White flower clusters, late spring. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring after flowering |
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Attributes
Attractive Fruit
Espaliers
Fruit-Bearing
Hedge Plant
Berries
Summer Flowering
Year-round Interest
Deer Resistant |
Foliage
Dense foliage
| Foliage Shape | Obovate |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Yellow |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
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Plant Lore
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Plant History
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