GARDENING
by
Mike Lusty
Sacred Bamboo is a common appellation given to Nandina domestica which leads to the misconception that this is a true bamboo. Many people are then wary towards it.
This quite stiffly erect growing plant is allied to the Berberis, and is notable for the extremely persistent, brilliant scarlet berries which it may produce, a real stand out. The fern-like foliage is somewhat variably tinged red, becoming more intense in \cold winters. Large terminal panicles of small white flowers occur in the summer. Unless a hermaphrodite form, such as “Richmond,” is planted, berry production is uncertain
even where several plants are growing close to one another. N. domestlca “Pygmeae” is a smaller growing, but ultimately very bushy, cultivar. There is available a number of other forms of both the species and the cultivar. -s ‘ Old plants respond to hard cutting back, al- < though response to such -treatment is not very rapid.
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Press, 20 November 1987, Page 18
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