[94] Mahonia Japonica Winter Sun

Winter is when leatherleaf mahonia catches your eye.

[99] Mahonia Japonica Winter Sun Herunterladen. Spring flowers in 2 to 3 inches clusters along stems. Plant your mahonia in fall or spring but avoid frost spells and high temperatures. If you must plant it in the sun avoid places that would be too hot and if possible favor part sun.

Mahonia winter sun is a statuesque evergreen shrub that becomes a dramatic focal point for the winter garden. Hello there mahonia media winter sun and mahonia media charity are similar but the main difference is that winter sun has bright yellow flowers and more arching racemes whereas charity has paler yellow flowers which are more upright. The winter flowers provide late winter early spring nectar for any solitary bees emerging from hibernation.

It loves cool soil with a lot of humus. These plant are tough tolerating shade and quite harsh conditions but they will need a moist but. First selected by slieve donard nursery in ireland circa 1966 the winter sun cultivar was chosen for having a compact upright growth habit with more fragrant flowers.

Notice the new year s growth as cold weather settles in when bright yellowish green buds swell from the tips of the stems as shown above. Mahonia are best in part sun part shade but are shade tolerant. The mahonias japonica charity and winter sun are shrubs with high growth rates being able to reach 2 00 m high and 3 00 m wide without problems.

Each growth point erupts into a cluster of one to two dozen spires of yellow flowers tiny bright bells above the dark green foliage. Mahonia media is an interspecific hybrid and its parent species are mahonia lomariifolia and mahonia japonica both of which are native to taiwan and china. Purplish or bronzy leaves in winter especially in upper south or where plants are grown in full sun.

If your garden is large with enough space to let these trees grow freely you probably don t need to prune them. Use as a privacy hedge or buffer screen. Mahonia x media winter sun 3 5m 11ft mahonia japonica 1m 3ft mahonia aquifolium 1 5m 5ft thin out about a quarter of the older stems in the centre of the plant cutting them back to 15cm 6in from the central trunk.