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Spindle tree (Euonymous europaeus)
Adam Frost on GW on Friday planted a spindle. I am interested in members' experiences.
Spindle are common where I live and pop up freely in my garden. Some I pull up as weeds. others are left, or moved to a mixed hedge. A couple have become feature trees for their decorative fruits and autumn leaf colour.
They sucker like mad. It is very difficult to pull these suckers out at source like one would with roses. How do you cope with this? Are there choiice cultivars with a less suckering tendency? AF did show a photo of much brighter autumn colour than my plants.
Spindle are common where I live and pop up freely in my garden. Some I pull up as weeds. others are left, or moved to a mixed hedge. A couple have become feature trees for their decorative fruits and autumn leaf colour.
They sucker like mad. It is very difficult to pull these suckers out at source like one would with roses. How do you cope with this? Are there choiice cultivars with a less suckering tendency? AF did show a photo of much brighter autumn colour than my plants.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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Like people collect stamps I used to collect Euonymus.
A favourite evergreen one was Euonymus myrianthus with the orange/golden seeds....slightly tender.
Will add others below.
See also above.
More below.
See also above.
More below.
3 more below...see also above.
i could go on for ages.
All are wonderful.
Euonymus planipes with pointed buds.
Euonymus oxyphyllus.
I saw one at Barnsdale years ago in its Autumn glory, and bought Red Cascade.
It's never really done much to be honest, it's quite bare at the bottom and l've only ever had one or two "spindles". I think the "pan" underneath the flower bed may have something to do with it.
I've never had a problem with suckers though. Could it be a rootstock problem perhaps?
Super warty seed capsules.
I grew it...got flowers but cannot remember getting the seed capsules.
(then moved 450 miles North)
All my fab Euonymus collection left behind.
Sadly, probably now all overgrown or removed/ maybe by now a housing estate.
I don't want to know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=euonymus+americanus+seed+capsule&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjpzL3wkMH6AhXF0oUKHZNPAAkQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=euonymus+americanus+seed+capsu
Many named cultivars.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331601-2
A non-suckering rootstock is the best answer. But not the answer to my specific question. How do nurseries propagate Euonymus? Probably by simple cuttings, not grafting and possibly from a non-suckering variety.
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