20+ Aucuba Winter

Plants need significant amounts of shade in hot summer climates young leaves will often burn in full sun. It attacks susceptible plants when they become vulnerable due to drought stress winter injury to stems or compacted clay soil.

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Aucuba winter

Aucuba should be planted in partial to full shade summer and winter as its leaves will burn in summer and turn sickly green in winter. It prefers partial to full shade and well drained moist highly organic soil. Deeper shade means brighter leaf color.

The disease works its way up from ground level. Aucuba is tolerant of pollution salt drought and coastal conditions. Leaves exposed to sun will turn black.

Though the aucuba comes from the himalayas and japan it is one of the finest shrubs. Aucubas like many other shrubs must be present in male and female varieties to get the prized winter fruit. Underneath deciduous trees is not a good place as the plant needs shade in the winter as well as in the summer.

Winter hardy to usda zones 7 9 where this shrub is best grown in moist organically rich well drained soils in part shade to full shade. The shrub reaches heights of 4 to 10 feet with. Reeves said he has an aucuba shrub.

Japanese aucuba plants survive winters in usda plant hardiness zones 7b. So be extra careful not to overwater during winter. Here is a list of ideal aucuba growing conditions.

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