Description
Size (HxW): 2-3’ x 2-3’
Growth Habit: Compact, rounded
Planting Location: Exposed
Zone 2b
- Abundant orange over yellow flowers
- A small hardy shrub, great for exposed areas
- Makes a great clipped low hedge, feature, or accent shrub
- Upright, uniform branching with small, green foliage
- Blooms from mid June until frost
- Single (5 petals) blooms
- In hot, dry years, flowers fade to pale yellow
- Exfoliating papery bark on mature branches
- Native to the prairies
- Requires 6+ hours of sunlight for blooming
- Mature plants: trim 6” off the top in late October to prevent snow damage and remove seed pods
- Hedge spacing: minimum 1.5’ apart
- Medium Growth Rate: 5-9”/year