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Mon, Jun 13, 11 at 14:42
| I'd like to use a euonymous "Emerald 'n' Gold" as a specimen plant, but I need it to get largish. How reliably does it attain it's full height (which can be up to 3 ft.) in Zone 5? The location is full sun. |
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| I've always seen it much lower than 3' and used as a foreground or edge plant. It grows horizontally more than vertically from what I've seen. Maybe if its pruned a lot it would get taller in the middle. Maybe a dwarf conifer would make a better specimen. Gold foliage is not too hard to find in a needle evergreen. |
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| Mine is a nice specimen in full sun, a nice mounded shape provided you give it regular pruning. It can grow leggy, like a vine, if you let it, but it takes to pruning into a specific shape wonderfully. It's a beautiful plant - give it a few years and you'll have a nice specimen. Trim only straggler branches the first and second year - let the rest fill in. By the third year you should be retaining the shape you want. They like water - be sure to provide ample water. I'm extremely happy with the growth rate. I trim mine down because I have it next to a purple smokebush and I want a lower profile shrub in a smaller planting space, but it will grow close to if not up to 3 feet in height. |
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