Fernleaf Buckthorn

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 15, 2008 9:45 am

Asplenifolia to be exact. Does anyone know if it is one buckthorn that is invasive? I was reading elsewhere tha someone was worried about that and others wer not *sure, but said not to plant to be safe.......I am like great! I have that fropm a year ago or two.....and I remember Wayne from Gardens on the Prairie telling us not to go deep......well where I have it, it isn't doing that good......some branches dies and I have cut them off, but now I want to move it........OR NOW do I want to pitch it??

Thanks as always.......

Post by **Chris_W** » May 15, 2008 9:58 am

Hi Lucygoose,

The species is considered a weed but the cultivars like this one are thought to be okay to grow and less invasive.

The dieback sounds like a fungus problem as buckthorn should be very easy to grow in almost any soil and it is very cold hardy. I would recommend using some clean pruners to cut off any dead wood, preferably back into any green parts, then treat with a broad spectrum fungicide. I might even repeat treatment after a few weeks or alternate to another fungicide for the second treatment.

I would keep it, but if later you get a ton of berries on it I would rethink it as the birds might scatter those all over the place.

Hope that helps.

Chris

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 15, 2008 10:29 am

Thanks! I already did cut off the dead, and I really don't remember berries?

BUT, where it is......I don't see it.....

Primroselane · Post by **Primroselane** » May 15, 2008 10:10 pm

I have several of these plants and they are very desirable , you will love it. they do like it in the sun and grow really big, 15 ft in full sun, I have several in the shade and they are much smaller. Rhamnus frangula Asplenifolia Fern Leaf Buckthorn

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 15, 2008 10:38 pm

Hi Lucille!

Do you have any picture's? Thanks!

DryGulch · Post by **DryGulch** » May 17, 2008 12:38 pm

I've had one too for 3 years. Seems very slow to grow, has never bloomed, let alone set fruit of any kind. The deer buckthorn (local vernacular) has a rounded leaf versus the threadleaf and loads of black berries that the birds scatter and seem to germinate very quickly, without it appears stratification. I have not seen one much larger than 8'.

Primroselane · Post by **Primroselane** » May 17, 2008 9:56 pm

Hi Lucy Goose
Here is a picture taken at a friends house, same age as mine but theirs grew much faster than mine, this one is about 10 feet tall and mine is about 6 or 7 feet. I will take a picture of mine tomorrow.

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 18, 2008 11:50 am

WOW!