Columnar Tall Hedge Buckthorn
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Columnar tall hedge buckthorn. Buckthorn makes an excellent hedge plant and can easily be maintained at a specific size with an annual pruning. I did a search on this name and found a tallhedge columnar buckthorn for sale on line that fit the description. Call on this deciduous shrub to screen the view into a neighboring yard. Rhamnus frangula ron williams plant patent 14 791.
Employ it as a leafy living wall used to enclose a patio. You re also thinking that i m a bit crazy right now for suggesting this and what part of narrow do i not understand. I ve used fine line buckthorn rhamnus frangula fine line in containers to create a deciduous hedge and also to establish a living wall adjacent to a pathway. Spaced apart the alder buckthorn stands like a row of soldiers at attention.
Fine line buckthorn is a deciduous columnar plant growing 6 to 8 feet tall and about two feet wide. The fall color is yellow to gold. Closer together the plants weave together to create an impressive screen of bright. This selection grows 12 15 tall and 3 4 wide and has an upright columnar habit.
Pruning is best done in late winter to early spring for most trees and late spring for spring blooming shrubs. The buckthorn part sounds scary. Prune regularly to promote health provide air circulation maintain a desirable shape and to remove dead or damaged branches. Columnar hornbeam carpinus betulus fastigiata so if you know anything about columnar hornbeam you know that they can reach 30 to 40 feet tall and 20 to 30 feet wide.
Columnaris also known as tallhedge buckthorn is a fastigiate once patented cultivar that was originally grown by the patent holder from seed. On a garden walk today i saw a quite attractive narrow property divider hedge that the homeowner labeled as fine line tall hedge. This non invasive cultivar is an excellent replacement. Makes a nice formal accent plant a dense columnar shrub with glossy dark green oblong leaves.
Tiny greenish white flower clusters in late spring produce red fruit turning black in late summer. Also known as a tallhedge buckthorn rhamnus frangula columnaris provides vertical relief in the landscape. This versatile shrub retains is columnar shape without pruning is deer resistant drought tolerant will grow in part shade or full sun and is sterile so none of the invasive concerns of older varieties of buckthorn. It is freely branching from the base with ascending branches that bear gracefully arching willowy leaves that are glossy green and to 5 inches long.
What is fine line buckthorn. Excellent for attracting birds. Great as a narrow hedge accent specimen and to frame doors and pathways. A tall narrow growing shrub that is ideal for creating a privacy screen where space is limited.