Red Tip Photinia Along Fence

It has red new growth compact form and needs less pruning. Red fence photinia is an excellent plant as a fence sized hedge or short screen.

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ensemble Red tip photinia along fence!!!

Red tip photinias were chosen as a shrub to be planted against the fence and would serve as a green backdrop for the majority of the year. There are suggested replacements for red tip photinia one of which chinese photinia photinia serrulata is actually quite similar in many ways to red tip. It can be a good choice for hedges and privacy screens in areas where deer are a problem as these animals tend to leave the shrub alone. Skip to main content.

Prune your red tip photinia anytime between spring and early fall with late spring early summer more acceptable. Of course each spring we had that blaze of red color for about a month of the year for some additional color in the garden landscape. No one really knows why but deer completely leave it alone. The red tip photinia photinia x fraseri is a popular shrub used as a fence row in the eastern half of north america.

A colorful foliage plant commonly called red tip photinea x fraseri is useful in hedges or as a specimen in a mixed border. Incorporate red tip bushes into a living fence of mixed evergreens and deciduous shrubs and small trees along a property line. Virescens western red cedar thuja plicata virescens is native to the western coast widely used deer resistant shrubs in the united states. The oval leaves of photinia plants start out red but turn into the dark ever green after a couple weeks to a month.

Princeton Nature Notes November 2013