A colorful evergreen shrub, providing bright green foliage with a gold edge, turning pink-red in cold weather. Its dense mounding habit makes it an excellent small hedge or border plant. Full sun. Moderate grower to 4 to 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide; a climber if supported. Cutting grown.
Design Ideas :
A very brilliant golden plant that makes dreary winter landscapes more cheerful. Makes a fine single specimen, but lower stature makes a fine barrier hedge inside existing gardens, or along the perimeter. Be careful with red volcanic gravels or bronze plants, and best combined with greens and neutral colored flowers.
Companion Plants:
This golden edged euonymus is a great hardy broadleaf that stands out boldly in gardens.
Let it provide the off season color until these flowering shrubs pick up the spotlight in spring and summer.
Look for Aphrodite Rose Of Sharon, (Hibiscus syriacus `Aphrodite`), Spring Glory Forsythia, (Forsythia x intermedia `Spring Glory`), and Slender Deutzia, (Deutzia gracilis).
Also serves as an accent for foilage shrubs like Northern Beauty Japanese Holly, (Ilex crenata `Northern Beauty`).
APHRODITE ROSE OF SHARON
Hibiscus syriacus 'Aphrodite'
SPRING GLORY FORSYTHIA
Forsythia x intermedia 'Spring Glory'
Average Landscape Size:
Moderate grower to 4 to 5 ft. tall, 3 ft. wide, a climber if supported.
Key Plant Benefits:
A colorful evergreen shrub, providing bright green foliage with a gold edge all year long. Its dense mounding habit makes it an excellent small hedge or border plant.
Care Instructions:
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear annually to shape.
Growth Conditions:
Growth Rate Moderate Growing
Growth Habit Mounding
Heat Zones High: 9 (>120 to 150 days)
Low: 1 (< 1 days)
Cold Hardiness High: 9 (20 to 30 F) (see map)
Low: 5 (-20 to -10 F)
Water Requirements Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry.
Sun Exposure Full sun
Flowering:
Flower or Bloom description: Inconspicuous
Flower Color Green
Flowering Time/Season Spring flowers are inconspicuous.
Propagation:
Propagation Method Cutting grown
Best time to Prune Spring after flowering
Attributes:
Attractive Fruit
Border Plant
Fruit-Bearing
Hedge Plant
Summer Flowering
Foliage
Gold-edged leaves Foliage Shape Oval
Normal foliage color Green
Underside foliage Green
Juvenile foliage Green
Mature foliage Green
New foliage Green
Spring foliage Green
Summer foliage Green
Fall foliage Green
Winter foliage Green