{"id":12793,"date":"2014-04-08T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2014-04-02T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T10:05:14","slug":"cotoneaster-horizontalis-growing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/cotoneaster-horizontalis-growing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotoneaster Horizontalis Growing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not always a bird favourite but a prolific berryer alll the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cotoneaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1009 aligncenter\" title=\"cotoneaster\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cotoneaster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cotoneaster.jpg 413w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cotoneaster-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Marks for the juicy red berries<\/strong> 65%, for the colourful leaves 25%, for the arching branches 25% and for arithmetic 12%.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Cotoneaster Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An important genus of hardy ornamental shrubs ranging from prostrate to 10 feet high varieties. They tolerate most soil and conditions some growing up north facing walls.<\/li>\n<li>As can be seen the leaves turn from green to strong autumn colours and most varieties bear fruit much loved by the birds in my garden.<\/li>\n<li>Small white flowers can smother the branches in June and they attract bees and hover flies but are not troubled by pest or disease.<\/li>\n<li>My Cotoneaster horizontalis has herring bone style branches covering a 2 foot wall and 6 square yards of an ugly, old patio. This variety of Contoneaster is drought tolerant.<\/li>\n<li>My &#8216;Hilliers Manual of Trees and Shrubs&#8217; (a great Christmas present for the enthusiast) lists over 70 of the 300 species with short write-ups on each and the RHS Plant Finder tells you where to source them.<\/li>\n<li>Originally from Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24557420@N05\/6363863771\/\" title=\"bird on fence by *Psycho Delia*, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6228\/6363863771_5d3262214a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"403\" alt=\"bird on fence\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Growing Cotoneaster Horizontalis for Landscaping<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cotoneaster Horizontalis is a good low growing shrub for use as groundcover or to grow on a bank. In this situation they need little or no maintenence or pruning.<\/li>\n<li>A group of Cotoneaster Horizontalis growing in harmony with a taller shrub can make a distinctive feature<\/li>\n<li>I have a self sown seedling in the top of a wall and the arching branches disguise the more formal wall shape.<\/li>\n<li>Cotoneaster Horizontalis can be trained as an espalier or against a wall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwf2005\/6440653099\/\" title=\"November 2011 - Cotoneaster horizontalis by muffinn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7019\/6440653099_bc043f0b57.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"November 2011 - Cotoneaster horizontalis\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Propagation of Cotoneaster Horizontalis<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cotoneaster horizontalis will root where the spreading branches touch the ground and this helps its spread. You can take rooted cuttings in this manner.<\/li>\n<li>Plants produce prolific seed via the red berries. They are easy to grow from seed.<\/li>\n<li>Can be propagated from Semiripe-hardwood cuttings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14775\">growing Cotoneaster as small trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credits<br \/>\nbird on fence by *Psycho Delia* CC BY-NC 2.0<br \/>\nNovember 2011 &#8211; Cotoneaster horizontalis by muffinn CC BY 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers, berries, coloured  autumn leaves and an architectural structure, the Cotoneaster horizontalis takes some beating growing in a garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}