Japanese Kerria
Kerria japonica
(KER-ee-a) (juh-PON-ih-kuh)
Synonyms: Japanese Rose, Easter Rose
It’s not often that this blog covers a plant that hasn’t
been featured here before but today we have one. Japanese Kerria was off
my list of fun, good stuff to grow for several years now. After several tries
at getting a nice patch of this going I pretty much gave up. Then a funny thing
happened to me. We were working at a house in Scarsdale, New York and I
happened on a specimen growing on the side of the yard. There were a lot of
yellow flowers covering the weak wooded canes and it looked great. The stems of this plant are lime green, which I am finding is becoming a desirable
trend for the garden and landscape now.
This shrubby perennial is best planted in an spot where it
can fade in and out of the landscape. It can crawl over rocks and other plants
but is not invasive in this area. Kerria flowers well in part shade and will
grow in full shade if it has to. There are three basic forms of Kerria, the
most popular and usually easiest to obtain is the double flowered, 'Pleniflora’ type. There is the single flowered one (pictured here)
and a kind of uncommon white flowered form also.
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