11-18-08: Nandina

Nandina Nandinas are most noted as a shrub with colorful autumn foliage, but the beauty of this plant lies in its finely textured lacy foliage, attractive red berries, and cream colored flowers.

Nandina's beauty compliments a tough nature that is tolerant of both urban conditions and drought. Nandina is often planted as informal hedges, ground covers, in borders, and also in containers. They can even be grown under eves with very little water. Plant in full sun to part shade. To keep mature plants fresh prune back older stalks to the ground and new fresh foliage will replace them. Good as cut flowers.

• Gulf Stream – 3 feet high by 1.5 feet wide. This is a dense compact shrub whose new growth is bronze with orange tints, the older leaves are blue green turning to gold red, a lovely medium sized shrub.
• Umpqua Chief (named after a Pacific Northwest Indian tribe) grows 3 feet high by 2 feet wide in 3 years maturing to 5 feet tall. This nandina has large leaves and magnificent winter color.
• Moyer’s Red – 6 feet tall by 4 feet wide. It has intense bright red winter color, pink flowers and berries that are produced earlier (late summer through winter) than other varieties.
• Harbor Dwarf – 2 feet tall, spreads by rhizomes creating a clumping ground cover. It has bright green summer color followed by orange-red bronzy winter color.

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