Being good citizens, we ripped out all our columnar buckthorns when
the state declared them persona non grata.

Now we're looking for something to go in the back of the garden along
the fence to replace them.

I've looked around off and on over the winter but never found
anything that looked like it would be anywhere near as low
maintenance as the buckthorns (lop a few feet off the top every year
and they were happy).

Any suggestions for other compact, upright shrubs to take their
place? We had a brief flirtation with Cornus Mas "Golden Glory", but
I'm no longer sure it's a real Zone 4a survivor.

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |