I scarcley glanced at the picture myself. I was just commenting on the practice of using 2 and sometimes 3 plants to a pot used by most commercial growers.
I’ve noticed that it is hard to separate them without a lot of damage.
You are right. Good eye! I just went out and checked the mossy tag. Could barely read it lol. It said osmanthus princess. I think this plant was in the nurseries throw out pile for a while. It was a few bucks so I couldn’t pass it up.
Definitely. It is very common, I would say greater than 50% of small containerized plants are like this. But especially with meserveae hybrids and verticillatas to get appropriate pollenizers together; although I always wondered how these plants would perform once mature... Would one eventually choke out the other??? Last week I had a client ask me why only one plant of his hedge had berries and the others didn't, I had to tell him his hedge was Osmanthus and that he had mistakenly planted a female blue holly in there.
) and separated out the individual plugs, it was definitely worth it!
It had a pretty nice fragrance when it flowered. It flowered a good bit so I figured it was pretty healthy unlike it’s dead sibling next to it lol. I actually passed it up last time the first time I saw it and told myself I’d pick it up if it was still in their discount area the next time 6 months later still there so I knew they’d pretty much just give it away. Guess I’ll hold out until spring to root prune and repot. I was thinking about wiring and pruning this weekend but maybe should wait and see how it does during this winter due to the fact they can have some die back.@RKMcGinnis
The spines on the leaves are usually longer on Osmanthus, and I can tell heterophllyus usually from the leaf venation although I couldn't get a good look at that from your pics. Then I saw the hanging tag!
I fear coming off pedantic when I i.d. plants that people have misidentified, but I only want the person to know what they have so they can correctly cultivate it. After working for at nursery for 12 years, it was ingrained in me to use the botanical name first.
It's a cultivar I've never heard of before, so that's cool! It's supposedly a dwarf variety and flowers at an early age.
In my opinion, Osmanthus has some of the best fragrance around! Typically, the species 'fragrans' is the best, I'm not sure if heterophllyus is as fragrant though. The site I looked at said that your cultivar is good for bonsai! I'm not really seeing any dwarf characteristics on yours, hopefully it's not the straight species.
Care should be pretty similar to hollies. The only other thing I can add is that some Osmanthus can be temperamental to cold and are prone to some dieback, but they should bounce back from any issues like hollies.
Definitely. It is very common, I would say greater than 50% of small containerized plants are like this. But especially with meserveae hybrids and verticillatas to get appropriate pollenizers together; although I always wondered how these plants would perform once mature... Would one eventually choke out the other??? Last week I had a client ask me why only one plant of his hedge had berries and the others didn't, I had to tell him his hedge was Osmanthus and that he had mistakenly planted a female blue holly in there.
That's also how I got a crap load of Grace Hendrick Phillips boxwoods. I bought a bunch of 1 gallons (priced over $20 each
And I thank you for pointing out what it was. I really thought it was some kind of holly. Lol the plant kingdom is very diverse!@RKMcGinnis
The spines on the leaves are usually longer on Osmanthus, and I can tell heterophllyus usually from the leaf venation although I couldn't get a good look at that from your pics. Then I saw the hanging tag!
I fear coming off pedantic when I i.d. plants that people have misidentified, but I only want the person to know what they have so they can correctly cultivate it. After working for at nursery for 12 years, it was ingrained in me to use the botanical name first.
It's a cultivar I've never heard of before, so that's cool! It's supposedly a dwarf variety and flowers at an early age.
In my opinion, Osmanthus has some of the best fragrance around! Typically, the species 'fragrans' is the best, I'm not sure if heterophllyus is as fragrant though. The site I looked at said that your cultivar is good for bonsai! I'm not really seeing any dwarf characteristics on yours, hopefully it's not the straight species.
Care should be pretty similar to hollies. The only other thing I can add is that some Osmanthus can be temperamental to cold and are prone to some dieback, but they should bounce back from any issues like hollies.
Definitely. It is very common, I would say greater than 50% of small containerized plants are like this. But especially with meserveae hybrids and verticillatas to get appropriate pollenizers together; although I always wondered how these plants would perform once mature... Would one eventually choke out the other??? Last week I had a client ask me why only one plant of his hedge had berries and the others didn't, I had to tell him his hedge was Osmanthus and that he had mistakenly planted a female blue holly in there.
That's also how I got a crap load of Grace Hendrick Phillips boxwoods. I bought a bunch of 1 gallons (priced over $20 each
Just my experience from my area. Heterophllyus does much better here than fragrans, our winters are just a touch too cold for them usually (unfortunately). I bet most Osmanthus would be just about bullet proof in Georgia.
You are right it is party princess. It seemed like it had the potential for good bonsai. But I have only been practicing the art for a few years so still a lot to learn. We’ve been getting temps in the low 20’s at night. Hope my plants survive the winter. Hoping to get a cold storage room in a year or so. Does it need direct sunlight indoors?
We were hit with temps in the low 20’s last week and everything froze overnight until the sun came out. I am going to mulch some of my trees in today.
Love the Osmanthus as well, but difficult to find one that is zone7a hardy.
