I'm landscaping my sisters yard and we just came back from the nursery. We needed some evergreen foundation shrubs. She really liked the two tones color of the euonymus. She selected a variety called 'Golden Maiden'. There's not much on the tag except "up to 10'". I tried to find some info on-line and wasn't having much luck. I did find a post last year that Toots replied to (http://boards.hgtv.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7184011632/m/7371044713) about this.

Does anyone have any mroe info on this variety?

It says they grow 5-6' wide. I spaced them for 5' and it looks ridiculous b/c there's so much space in between. 5' high and wide was the ideal size we were looking for. Will it be too difficult to keep them pruned to that size?

Also, do they grow fast?

Hey mom, Toots posted this for someone awhile ago.....site for you

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I have found Euonymus very slow growers. You may want to plant flowers between those shrubs.

Thanks. I did see that post, with that site. I was just looking for any more info. According that site, they get 5-6' wide. THe front of the house is 18' wide and I could fit 3 in with a little room to spare. I'm just wondering how fast they grow b/c right now the plants are in 3 gallon pots and are only 2' wide. So it looks really funny having only 3 shrubs along the front.

Does that make sense? I just want to make sure they're going to fill in quickly and not have wait 5-6 years or more to have larger shrubs.

Why not PM Toots? I think she'll know for sure.

They don't grow real fast.. I have one I started from a cutting of my son's plant 8 years ago? Its about 4' high and maybe 3' wide, but then I do trim it back occasionally, especially when it gets the long shoots.

you've heard of "...ask the wizard..." , well ask toots,she seems to know everything.*G*

And no, I'm not being a smart alec.*S*

if you're putting them two and a half feet apart, why are there only three out there in 18 ft?.... even at three ft apart, you should have at least six of them.... perhaps if you make a double row and stagger three in between three?...make it look thickerer?....mine grow slowly for the first two or three years... if you have two ft tall ones now, then the next year or two should be where they take off a little better..... my son has his in a row placed one in front of him and one at each of his arms/fingertips and they've grown together now to be a solid hedge...t his is their fifth year.... you gotta remember that they're in shade... not a place for fast growth....pruning is welcomed... they 'fatten up' really nice with pruning.... keeping them at five feet when they want to go to ten ft will keep her busy eventually, but it's not a hard thing to take care of..... mine seem to stop at six ft... but I have Emeralds not Maidens.....this is my biggest one.... six ft fence....it's all of six or seven yrs but was about three ft when planted...

spacing out is good early on... you really don't want to deal with mildew on them when they are young....



Master...yer cute.... hugsonya!...

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I have four of these. I'm not big on pruning anything...I prefer to just space them and let them be. But, for the oldest one, I've legged it up a bit to make it a canopy over some dwarf hollies that I have. It's along on the corner of my house and the bottom branches were growing into the hollies. Other than that, I have left them alone.

P.S. Mine grew REALLY fast too. I've been in my home for seven years and the oldest one was about two feet tall when we moved in. It's now about six feet tall.

Thanks. Toots - Sorry about the confusion. I haven't even planted them yet b/c of the rain. My plan was to space them 5' apart, since they get 5-6' wide. If I do that, then 3 will fit fine (3x5=15'). I was just saying that it's going to look funny for a few years until they fill out. If I was going to plant them any closer then I would need to buy more but I'd be afraid they would get too crowded a few years down the road. Does that makse sense?

I second the idea mentioned earlier of planting some perennials in the gaps between (or in front of the gaps) to fill in the space while the shrubs are maturing. Then the perennials can be moved to other places when they are no longer needed there. Or if they are in front of the gaps, they might even look good staying there with parts of the shrubs serving as backdrops for the perennials as they all mature.

That would be much easier and better than putting the shrubs closer together early on,then trying to move big shrubs with big roots balls to their proper spacing later. JMHO

I am with luv R pups....I have three planted about 5 feet apart...for growth room and also because I had to plant them around some buried concrete (looong story). I took planter boxes hubby made and planted annuals in them and tucked them between the bushes. My Euonymus have grown quickly, so I have moved my planters to the deck in the last two years.
Now, my bushes were along a white privacy fence, not in a true "garden bed" so the planters really stood out and "popped" plus helped hide the bottom of the fence egde.
P.S. DH moved some of his Lambs Ear (from H*ll) around the edges of the shrubs, and they are HUGE this year. Anyone want some Lambs ear!?!?