If you like ornamental shrubs, you will love the pheasant spars. It is not only easy to care for, but also beautiful. Here are some varieties and care tips.
The actually red-leaved pheasant spier is one of the really easy-care and lush flowering ornamental shrubs (including berries), which is why it is ideal for almost all gardens in our latitude.
Fast-growing pheasant spars can get along with almost all locations because they thrive equally well in sun and partial shade and also make hardly any demands on the soil conditions prevailing on site. But first some varieties are presented below, which just look great in every garden.
Pheasant Pierce Varieties:
- Summer Wine: red-leaved variety with white-pink flowers/low growth height up to approx. 1.5 metres
- Luteus: from May this variety already bears its white flowers/yellow-green leaves
- Diabolo: red leaves turning bright orange in autumn/cream white flowers/also known as Devil's Bush
- Angel Gold: yellow-green leaves, which are even adorned with a copper edge in spring/carries violet-colored fruits after flowering/low growth height of up to approx. 1.2 metres
- Little Devil: needs a sunny location/only grows about 1 meter high, so it can also find its place in the flower bed
- Darts Gold: also known as dwarf pheasant's spear/features bright yellow (slightly green) foliage and reddish flowers
- Nugget: lime-green foliage/best suited for hedges/growth height approx. 2 metres/tolerates pruning
- Lady in Red: red leaves/up to 3 meters high/rather robust variety
- Diable d´Or: fast-growing, red-leaved variety/good pruning/white flowers from May to July
Hint:
Since the pheasant hedge is available in many different colours, a pretty garden hedge can also be created by combining all varieties.
Care tips for pheasant spars
Once planted and well established, the pheasant spar hardly needs any additional care in the following period. hereHowever, a few tips to support your beauty a little:
» Tip 1 - pruning:
The hardy pheasant spur, a subspecies of bladder spur (also called snowball-like bladder spur), grows up to 3.5 meters tall and wide on average. However, you can easily keep the pheasant spar smaller by regularly trimming it back in early spring or fall. However, you shouldn't make any radical cuts here, but rather use secateurs from time to time.
» Tip 2 - Fertilize:
You only have to fertilize a pheasant spar when necessary. Otherwise, it is perfectly sufficient if you work a little compost around the plant trunk in the spring.
» Tip 3 - Watering:
As far as watering is concerned, you don't have to pay much attention to the pheasant spars. It actually only needs some water during longer dry periods in midsummer.