26+ Mahonia Media Lionel Fortescue

This can be grown as a specimen or planted behind lower growing shrubs.

Mahonia media lionel fortescue. Mahonia japonica 1m 3ft. Mahonia aquifolium 1 5m 5ft. Mahonia lionel fortescue winter blooming evergreen shrub with yellow flowers. Bright blue fruit follows. Mahonia pests and diseases. Berberis barberry mahonia lionel fortescue berberis x media. In the depth of winter when little else to cheer the foliage bright weather resistant flowers and the fragrance of the lionel fortescue mahonia wafting through the damp air is enough to include.

Evergreen pinnate leaves to 45cm 18in long with 17 21 oval to lance shaped sharply toothed dark green leaflets yellow. Sun to partial shade. Like many members of berberidaceae mahonia possesses a bright yellow inner bark. Prune back any of the outer stems to keep the plant to a manageable size. Some cultivars particularly lionel fortescue are noted for being fragrant. Mahonia x media lionel fortescue from burncoose nurseries available online to buy information. Mahonia lionel fortescue 4l this versatile plant is evergreen with long architectural leaves and yellow scented clusters of flowers during the autumn and winter.

X media meed ee uh cultivar. Edible fruits and nuts. Mahonia x media lionel fortescue sku 5358 dramatic sprays of freeze resistant fragrant yellow flowers contrast with a statuesque upright branching structure with thick lustrous fern shaped leaves. Thin out about a quarter of the older stems in the centre of the plant cutting them back to 15cm 6in from the central trunk. Mahonia x media lionel fortescue other names. Mahonia x media winter sun 3 5m 11ft. It will grow in most conditions and can be pruned hard in the spring if it as becoming too large or leggy.

Mahonia lionel fortescue mahonia x media type. In earlier times barberry species were harvested to dye. The color is due to an alkaloid known as berberine. Flowers bright yellow scented in. Genus mahonia are evergreen shrubs with leathery pinnate leaves which are often spine toothed and clustered racemes of sometimes fragrant yellow flowers sometimes followed by black or purple berries details lionel fortescue is a large erect evergreen shrub with spiny pinnate leaves to 45cm in length. Literature states that the berries are edible sharp in taste and especially high in vitamin c. Mahonia x media charity lionel fortescue 2 5m 8ft.

Variety or cultivar lionel fortescue lionel fortescue is a large evergreen shrub with spiny pinnate leaves and bright yellow scented flowers in clustered upright racemes followed by blue black berries.