November 12, 2002
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Warm up your winter landscape with ‘Firepower’
San Diego,Ca. - SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Brighten up your winter landscape with Nandina domestic ‘Firepower,’ one of the best coloring Nandinas available. The brilliant red foliage offers color fall through winter. Its neat mounds are terrific for borders, massing and containers.
Smaller than its predecessors and impossibly bright, ‘Firepower’ is the consummate accent for Asian-inspired gardens or for shaded landscapes in need of color. Plant it as a single specimen in smaller gardens and courtyards, where its color provides a focal point or accent. Or plant in clusters for a powerful presence in more spacious landscapes. It is perfect as a lacy overhang that won’t block sunlight to water gardens, pools and fountains. This is an ideal plant for spas in small urban backyard gardens.
An evergreen, ‘Firepower’ was developed in New Zealand and requires no pruning. It is moderate growing to 30 inches tall and wide. For the best results, follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after the plant is established. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.
For more information about this and other interesting plants, see a commercial landscape center professional at any one of Miramar Wholesale Nurseries’ three locations, San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, or Lake Forest. Miramar Wholesale Nurseries is Southern California’s leading supplier of landscape plant material and supplies. MWN grows a wide variety of perennials, shrubs, and trees at each of their three locations for projects in and around the region. Their fully stocked will-call facilities in San Diego, Irvine/Lake Forest, and San Juan Capistrano serve the needs of commercial properties, institutions, property managers, and commercial landscapers. MWN is a member of TruGreen LandCare, a ServiceMaster company.
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More Garden Color for Year Round Interest
If you like Nandina domestic ‘Firepower,’ check out these other specialty items Miramar Wholesale Nurseries recently added.
Philodendron x ‘Xanadu’
This tropical-appearing foliage plant works both indoors or for landscaping. The glossy, deeply-lubed foliage is small on a compact, densely-foliaged clump. This evergreen prefers full to partial sun. It is slow growing, reaching two- to three-feet high.
Gardenia jasminoides ‘Aimee’ / ‘First Love’
The wonderfully fragrant double white blooms on this shrub are larger than any other gardenia, making this super evergreen perfect as an accent shrub or container item. It is the first gardenia to bloom and continues well into the growing season. Preferring full to partial sun, it features a compact growth, and reaches five-feet high and three-feet wide.
Liriope muscari ‘Silvery Sunproof’
This small flax (approximately one to two feet) has a weeping habit. The sword-like leaves have vertical orange-pink, light green and yellow stripes. It is ideal for pots, planters and baskets.
Alpinia zerumbet ‘Variegata’
Gorgeous yellow and green bicolor leaves create a striking tropical look. This blooms in the spring with 12-inch long spires of porcelain-white, fragrant flowers with pale pink accents. It flowers only in frost-free climates, but promptly recovers its foliage after a light frost. Ideal for small spaced landscapes, this herbaceous perennial prefers full or partial sun and features a rapid growth rate, soaring to heights from four to seven feet, and spreading up to four-feet wide.
Metrosideros coll. ‘Springfire’
We selected this evergreen for its brilliant rose-red, powder-like blooms and compact, upright form. It is excellent as a flowering hedge and thrives in coastal conditions. It features a compact, upright growth, soaring six- to eight-feet high and three- to four-feet wide. Prefers full to partial sun.
Callistemon ‘Little John’
Blood-red blooms cover the top of this colorful grower for an extended season. Its dense branches are covered with blue-green leaves, and the versatile dwarf size is perfect for today’s smaller gardens. This evergreen prefers full sun and is a slow grower, reaching three-feet tall and five-feet wide.
Cyperus alt. ‘Gracilis’
The narrow, firm spreading leaves are arranged like an umbrella at the tops of this plant’s one- to two-foot stems. It flowers in day greenish-brown clusters, and grows in water or moist soil. This is effective near pools, in small gardens, and in container plantings.
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