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Does golden barberry need some shade?

jennie
17 years ago

This seems like a no-brainer to me, I had thought that barberries were sun worshippers; however, my little golden barberry that I planted last Fall is not happy in it's full sun location. The soil is well drained and mulched, it's not croweded by anything, yet some of the leaves are thin and dropping. They don't seem to be eaten or spotted, just a bit brown and crumpled in places. The sages and the camomile planted nearby are going gangbusters, they've probably quadrupled in size (area for the camomile, it doesn't get very tall--looks great near the barberry).

Could it be self-pruning the leaves? I just double-checked and the dropping ones seem to be at the junction of branches where things are a bit crowded.

I like this bush, it is staying a nice bright yellow; the only greenish bits are leaves that are shaded a bit by it's own branches. They've lost the red rim they had in the Spring.

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