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Orange Rocket Barberry – 2.5 Quart Pot
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Orange Rocket Barberry
Berberis thunbergii ‘Orange Rocket’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 6-8′
Width at Maturity: 2′
Spacing: 12-18″ for hedges, 4’+ for space between plants
Spacing: 12-18″ for hedges, 4’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Columnar
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Size: 1/8″
Flowering Period: Summer
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Orange In Spring, green in Summer, Orange-Red in Fall
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: Yes
Berry Color: Red
Sun Needs: Full Sun, Mostly Sun, Part Sun
Water Needs: Average, Low Once Established
Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained
Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5 (Acid to Moderately Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: None, Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect
Description
A new hybrid Barberry introduction, Orange Rocket is rocketing onto the landscape scene.
Orange Rocket Barberry was awarded Best Shrub for 2010, for good reasons. When grown in full to mostly sun, it has a tight missile-shaped habit, ultimately reaching 6 to 8 feet in height but only 2 feet in width in ten years. Plants have vibrant coral-orange new foliage that matures to mid-green by mid-summer and then back to a deep, vibrant orange-red in fall. In early summer, pale yellow flowers are followed by small, crimson red berries that do not set viable seed.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing to 6 to 8 feet tall and only 2 feet wide, the Orange Rocket Barberry is useful as a colorful accent or specimen, in groupings, or as a natural hedge in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Its high drought tolerance makes it an ideal choice for the Xeriscape (low water needs) garden and is a fine addition to orange theme gardens.
Orange Rocket Barberry combines well with sedums, junipers, ornamental grasses, yucca, and other drought tolerant plants that thrive in sun and well-drained soil.
Suggested Spacing: 12 to 18 inches apart for solid hedges, 4 feet or more apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Barberry is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
Barberry are exceptionally easy to grow when planted right and in the right spot. They prefer a well-drained soil and all the sun you can give them. Coloration is more intense with more sun. As with so many other ornamental landscape shrubs, barberry does not like a constantly soggy or wet soil. We’ve seen no insect or disease problems. When established, plants are very drought tolerant, requiring supplemental irrigation only during prolonged periods of summer drought.
Helpful Articles
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Have not ordered shrubs online before, so I was unsure about how they would fare with packing and shipping, but both arrived healthy and looking great, in undamaged packaging. Both were in their shipping pots for over a week before I was able to plant them, but they did great with a small daily watering and since planting are putting off tons of new growth and looking beautiful, with minimal care (watered lightly and daily for a few days after planting, but since then I have just let them be since we are getting rain every few days). One gets morning and afternoon full sun, the other gets afternoon and evening full sun and both are doing equally well and looking gorgeous. I will be adding more!————————————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This is the second time I’ve ordered multiple plants (shrubs) from you and your team does a great job. The first time I wondered how you could ship shrubs but you have the packaging down. Everything comes in good order and pretty quickly. I’ve recommended you to several family and friends. Selection and free shipping are deal clinchers!———————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks so much for the great review and the kind words! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Loved my new plants…Thank you.—————————-Hi Janice, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Orange Rocket Barberry. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
Orange Rocket Barberry seems to be doing well. Thank you. I had to clip off what appeared to be some leaf mold and I do understand we had a very wet fall 2018 and spring 2019. I had been looking for a Helmond Barberry (they were expensive on another website), , but we shall see how this does. I can just try to prune it to grow tall and somewhat cylindrical. I truly hope it gets to grow 4 feet in height.——————————-Hi Susan, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Orange Rocket Barberry. So sorry about the leaf mold, but you are right, we did have a very wet Fall and Winter. It should definitely grow 4′ tall no problem. We hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
I never purchased a bush online. The orange rocket barberry bush arrived on time and and was moist. Very happy. ——– WBG Reply: Hi Jim – Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review and choosing us to buy your first bush online from! Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens
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