(Free) Japanese Kerria Plant

Prune to maintain the shrub s natural growth pattern.

Japanese kerria plant. In spring it gets covered with bright yellow pom pom like flowers 2 in. Sometimes called white kerria but single flowers are actually pale creamy yellow with bright yellow stamens. Flowers well in dense shade or full sun. This is a shrub that will flower best in partial shade and makes a nice addition to a woodland. 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. Golden yellow double flowering ball shaped blooms.

Single golden yellow flowers are. 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. Pleniflora kerria japonica pleniflora syn. 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. A shrubby plant reaching 4 5 feet high and 6 to 9 feet wide. Japanese kerria is a multi stemmed shrub with new stems appearing from the ground forming a colony. 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.

Kerria normally grows into a mounded shape. Leaves variably flecked with white and yellow. Prune dead branches and twigs any time during the year. Its nearly leafless stems are decorated with roselike flowers in midspring.