I was thinking about planting this too but decided not to after reading responses from Dave's Garden website where I get a lot of research info. I live in Minnesota. What I read was that this shrub really needs a good 6 hours of sunlight daily. I don't have that much of it where I wanted to plant it. If you lives in the Carolina's or there about it would probably grow better. One guy said that he planted it in an old gravel road and it tripled in size in one year, but then he was in North Carolina. I don't think that it thrives in our winters.