Japanese Kerria Plant

Prune to maintain the shrub s natural growth pattern.

Japanese kerria plant. Leaves variably flecked with white and yellow. Single golden yellow flowers are. Japanese kerria is a multi stemmed shrub with new stems appearing from the ground forming a colony. Kerria japanese rose kerria japonica is a versatile shrub with arching greenish yellow stems and masses of golden yellow chrysanthemum like flowers that put on a show in spring.

Kerria japonica commonly called japanese kerria or japanese rose is a tough but graceful spring flowering deciduous shrub that is native to certain mountainous areas of china and japan. Prune dead branches and twigs any time during the year. Propagate kerria by dipping 6 inch cuttings into rooting compound and inserting them into moist sand or sterile potting. Japanese kerria a pleasing combination of tough and graceful qualities makes japanese kerria a welcome plant in a mixed border or informal hedge.

A shrubby plant reaching 4 5 feet high and 6 to 9 feet wide. Its nearly leafless stems are decorated with roselike flowers in midspring. In spring it gets covered with bright yellow pom pom like flowers 2 in. Kerria normally grows into a mounded shape.

Pleniflora kerria japonica pleniflora syn. Kerria japonica pleniflora japanese kerria noted for its green winter stems and yellow spring flowers kerria japonica pleniflora japanese kerria is a vigorous suckering deciduous shrub of great beauty. Golden yellow double flowering ball shaped blooms. This is a shrub that will flower best in partial shade and makes a nice addition to a woodland.

The bright green leaves turn yellow in fall and the stems provide color in the depths of winter after the deciduous foliage is long gone. Flowers well in dense shade or full sun.