Mahonia Media Lionel Fortescue

Some cultivars particularly lionel fortescue are noted for being fragrant.

Mahonia media lionel fortescue. It will grow in most conditions and can be pruned hard in the spring if it as becoming too large or leggy. Like many members of berberidaceae mahonia possesses a bright yellow inner bark. Berberis barberry mahonia lionel fortescue berberis x media. Mahonia x media charity lionel fortescue 2 5m 8ft.

Mahonia lionel fortescue mahonia x media type. Mahonia aquifolium 1 5m 5ft. Fine cut foliage and erect flowers. The flowers have a rather pleasing fragrance and are followed by clusters of plum coloured berries.

Mahonia japonica 1m 3ft. Mahonia x media lionel fortescue from burncoose nurseries available online to buy information. 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.

This can be grown as a specimen or planted behind lower growing shrubs. Edible fruits and nuts. Prune back any of the outer stems to keep the plant to a manageable size. Literature states that the berries are edible sharp in taste and especially high in vitamin c.

Mahonia x media lionel fortescue is an excellent plant with imposing whorls of great leaves composed of many leaflets and many upright sprays of yellow flowers that last for several months in late winter. 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. 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. Mahonia x media winter sun 3 5m 11ft.

X media meed ee uh cultivar. Mahonia pests and diseases. Mahonia lionel fortescue 4l this versatile plant is evergreen with long architectural leaves and yellow scented clusters of flowers during the autumn and winter. Sun to partial shade.

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. Mahonia x media lionel fortescue other names. Evergreen pinnate leaves to 45cm 18in long with 17 21 oval to lance shaped sharply toothed dark green leaflets yellow. 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.

Mahonia lionel fortescue winter blooming evergreen shrub with yellow flowers.