FREE shrubs and hedges

[Greywolf]

I noticed a local plant that becomes a full blown hedge once established, and I have been cultivating it here around the Memphis tennessee area.

At full growth it produces small berries with a seed in them that can be germinated, but it is simplest to just lift them out of the woods with a shovel and transplant them - they are amazingly hardy!

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This is one I took from the back treeline, and moved to a front area a year ago, when it was six inches tall. It has doubled in size over the winter alone...

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At the same time, I grabbed this one, which was larger and I worried about it making it through the winter and establishing roots

My fears were not justified as it turns out! It and several others are there for good.

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They are identical to the ones shown here to the left of "RUFUSS the Wonder Dog", which once grew as tall as the house itself before producing small berries containing seeds... (Approximately twelve feet tall, on average)

I guarantee you this - YOU CAN'T BEAT THE PRICE!!!
Not withstanding the fact that they are locally adapted, and take root readily. They SURVIVE!

I had thought that they had been frozen to death last winter - but what they did instead was to become dormant and spring back out in green growth as soon as the weather became clemant. Their older contemporaries remained green all winter long...
Honestly - they looked like so many burned sticks - but they were still alive and came back!

I think this is a shrub we ought to more accurately identify!

~Dutch

* These I am gradually planting along the street side of my home to provide privacy.
You can't beat a twelve foot "GREEN WALL"
~Especially if it actually cost you NOTHING!

(Conservation is a beautiful thing)

**I will try to get a more detailed picture of one of them, using the MACRO option of my camera