Mahonia x media - Cultivation Notes
This fast growing evergreen prefers moist yet well drained fertile soil in shady / woodland conditions. Avoid hard pruning - limiting annual pruning to the removal of dead wood in spring, cut back main branches if leggy.
Strengths, Weaknesses & Design Usage
Strengths of Mahonia x media:
- Scented blossom
- Spiney growth can deter unwanted visitors!
- All round tough plant suitable for problem areas
- Evergreen foliage for all year round colour and screening
- Suitable for container growing
- Architectural plant – ideal as a ‘stand out’ plant
- Fruit / berry producing
- Tolerates cold exposed locations
- Tolerates heavy clay soils
- Suitable for planting in full shade
- Produces winter flowers
Weaknesses of Mahonia x media
- Spiney plant - can scratch young children and gardeners!
- Does not tolerate very dry or very wet soils
Design & Plant Use for Mahonia x media:
- Provides scented winter blossom
- Evergreen shrub suitable for planting in a shady location
- Ideal flowering shrub for problem clay soils
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Common Missspellings: Merhonia, Mahonea, Merhonia, Mahonea, Merhoenia