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Thu, Apr 1, 10 at 16:32
| I'm hoping to find someone who has seeds from a Helmond Pillar Barberry bush. Here's what it looks like:
They fruit a lot, so their will be berries on it if it's got a male tree to pollinate it. The bushes are not expensive, but I want to cover a large area and was hoping to try seeds first. Does anyone know where I might get seeds or do you have this pillar barberry in your yard? If you have the gold variety, that will be fine. It looks like this, but I think I like the reddish one better, color is not important.
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 1, 10 at 19:28
| Barberries have perfect flowers - they contain both male and female sexual parts - so no such thing as a male plant :-) Any plant can - and usually does - produce berries. And seeds of named cultivars will not necessarily come true to form. It is quite possible that viable germinated seed of 'Helmond Pillar' will develop into a typically rounded, rather than erect, shrub and may not even produce very red foliage. Propagation is typically done from cuttings. |
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- Posted by scarletdaisies 7 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 6, 10 at 12:46
| Thanks! I guess I'll be looking for that perfect hedge elsewhere. Do you know of a perfect fence hedge that does not grow over 6 feet and is thin about a foot thick that can be planted close together? |
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