Description

An excellent choice for foundation plantings, this heat tolerant shrub features fire-red emerging foliage that matures to a glossy green; maintains a neat, compact habit with no need to prune; disease resistant

Landscape Attributes

Fireball Red™ Photinia is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

Fireball Red™ Photinia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Fireball Red™ Photinia will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 feet. It has a low canopy. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. You may want to keep it away from hot, dry locations that receive direct afternoon sun or which get reflected sunlight, such as against the south side of a white wall. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.