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"Shepherd" wrote:

I understand the Red Tip Photinias are prone to developing red spot and
should be avoided.

I have gone to several nurseries here in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex
trying to find some other plant that I can use as a formal hedge. All of the
nurseries I have gone to have the Red Tip and claim the ones they sell are
resistant to red spot and other diseases.

Are any of you aware of disease resistant varieties of the Red Tip, and if
not what plant would be a good substitute for a formal hedge that grows fast
and can be maintained at about ten feet?

Thanks,

Shepherd

Stranvaesia has all the best traits & none of the worst traits of
photinia. Here's mine, which is the prostrate form:
http://www.paghat.com/stranvaesia.html
Unfortunately it can be hard to find. For hedge purposes you'd want
"undulata" and NOT "undulata prostrata," & for a tree form just the
regular species -- but when it turns up in nurseries it is almost always
the prostrate form.

-paghat the ratgirl

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"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
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