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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
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, 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
Click on the link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Barberry shrubs.
How To Plant & Care For Barberry Shrubs
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Very pleased with the 3 plants I bought. I kept them in their pots for a few weeks due to the cold weather here in Michigan at the time they arrived. They have been in the ground for 3 weeks and are doing beautifully. I ordered 6 of these last year from a big box store and they all died shortly after being planted. I really wanted these because of the size a color for a specific spot in our landscaping so I thought I’d try ordering from a nursery. So happy I found them here. They were packaged well and the soil was moist when they arrived. No branches were broken in transit. I will be buying more plants in the future. Thanks Wilson Bros.————————————-You’re welcome! Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Sent to my son to redo his front bed. Arrived in a reasonable amount of time and in excellent shape. Excellent color. I would definitely order from this site again.———————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope your son enjoys them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
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