i love this tree..it has no thorns, grows like wild fire and i cant seem to find any more so im going to attempt propagation. Im selling ...Read Moremy property and i want to take it with me! Any helpful information on this would be awesome! i live in alberta canada, and this tree...in five years has grown from less than 3 feet high to over 12! Is not invasive..no new shoots etc... and handles our harsh winters very well!
A deciduous shrub with narrow, intensely silver foliage and inconspicuous, sweetly fragrant flowers that perfume the air in May. After ma...Read Moreny years it may get as large as 16' high by 12'. Despite what's written above, it is not a tree.
Also despite what's written above, this is intolerant of wet soils and requires good drainage. It is reasonably drought tolerant.
Fast growing. Tolerates hard pruning well. Can be sheared into hedges.
It does best in regions with cool summers. In eastern North America, probably not a good performer much south of Z6b. At the J. C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC (Z 7b), it struggled and failed.
Sources differ on whether this hybrid has spines. Some also say it's sterile. If this is true, it would be a more ecologically responsible substitute for the invasive E. umbellata and E. angustifolia, whose seeds birds spread long distances.
This is not a cultivar of Elaeagnus angustifolia. It is sometimes listed as a cultivar of E. commutata, though that too is clearly incorrect. The legendary English plantsman Roy Lancaster speculates that it's E. angustifolia x E. commutata.
i love this tree..it has no thorns, grows like wild fire and i cant seem to find any more so im going to attempt propagation. Im selling ...Read More
A deciduous shrub with narrow, intensely silver foliage and inconspicuous, sweetly fragrant flowers that perfume the air in May. After ma...Read More