Pyracantha On Fence

Avoid planting the shrub next to a painted wall doorway or gate. Remove any branches which grow in towards the garden and retain the ones growing sideways.

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Pyracantha on fence

Pyracantha is highly drought tolerant stays lush without fertilization and after a year or two in the ground would probably make due water wise with an occasional summer soaking if even that. Pyracanthas are also attractive to birds for their dense evergreen foliage and branching structure which especially when trained on a fence creates nesting sites for blackbirds and thrushes. Consider training the plant against a wall or fence.

Trained in this way though they do not make a dense cover they only get dense if you don t train them against something. Fyi the fence is also on our side of the boundary and the original boundary has also been removed by the neighbour without discussing this with us. Pyracantha coccinea is native to europe others are native to china and surrounds.

I ve seen a pyracantha covering a wall 10 feet high by about 8 feet wide and it was just a single plant. Pyracantha has dangerous thorns. Planting pyracantha next to a fence.

When the plant grows tall instead of wide. Useful for birds which like the berries during the winter plant it where you wish it to remain pyracantha bushes hate transplanting will tolerate some shade. No plant is more covered with white flowers in the spring or inundated with red berries in the fall than pyracantha and its thorns will deter the most determined intruders from crossing your property line.

Pyracantha is quite commonly grown against a wall or a fence and in fact is recommended for such a purpose by the rhs. When planting pyracantha against a wall choose a planting site 12 to 16 inches 30 to 40 cm. Member of the rose family it grows large has thorns is a woody shrub.

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