Nice plant and pics! Thanks for sharing them. I just planted a small one of these and am looking forward to watching it grow. I put it in a spot where my fence is a bit low (I'm on a sloped street) so it should help create some casual privacy. I've given it plenty of room as I've seen some really large ones like yours just down the street.

Yours is great! I had no idea you could eat the berries, so thanks for posting about them.

Great post...keep them coming.
Happy gardening,
Grant

It would be gorgeous if I didn't have to cage it, it is constrained to a columnar shape but would be fuller. The hollow stems are striking. I haven't had fruit before so it remains to be seen whether it will reseed any.

Yes, it will reseed. At least mine does, and I have it in a minimal irrigation zone.

Where are the pictures?

I'm brandnew at posting photos but they are still there for me. Here is a link to the flowers, if that works for you I can do the plant too-

Here is a link that might be useful:

Hemnancy, even penned in with a cage yours is gorgeous--I love it. Oh, and your pics show up fine for me as well. You posted them perfectly. Birdluvr, what do you see in the initial post?? I see the pics.

Jean, thanks for information about them self-sowing. I'm looking forward to finding some babies some day.

I did see in the latest Parks catalog a golden form (link below) in case anyone is curious. It might be fun to try.

Take care,
Grant

Here is a link that might be useful: Golden Leycesteria from Park Seed

My shrub is about 8' and is flowering like crazy. I've successfully started new plants by literally sticking a broken cane in moist soil and ignoring it. This is the time of year when I want to MOVE every plant in my garden, so I have some to give away to anyone who is interested. I guess I should post in the exchange group, but if I get no takers before then, I plan on going to the Green Elephant again this year.
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Great photography, aunaturel! Do you eat the berries? They are strange, they turn liquid inside when ripe, and the seeds are very small. I pull on the red flower remnants/stamens? to release the berry and it pops right out. I don't think the birds in my yard know what they are yet because I haven't had any trouble with them. I also don't think there are any pheasants around at present, though there was one a few years ago. I wish I could enjoy my plant without the cage. The deer ate all the blooms and ate the bush down last year without it.:-( I least I get flowers and berries this way.

Grant- the west coast nurseries like Forest Farm and lazyssfarm.com carry the golden form for $10-12. I don't know how their shipping charge compares to Park's.

>> I did see in the latest Parks catalog a golden form (link below) in case anyone is curious. It might be fun to try.

Dig! Nursery on Vashon Island had the golden form, too.

As do most other better local retail nurseries......'Golden Lanterns' leycesteria is not all that uncommon and a nice take on a great plant. Newest growth is tinged with red - makes for a stunning combo with the red flower bracts and subsequent berries.

FWIW, I have never had a problem with this plant reseeding. I think the birds find it too appealing. A common name for leycesteria is "pheasant berry".

Good to know there are some local sources as well. I love Dig but haven't been in a couple of years. Now that I'm three blocks from the Vashon ferry I guess I have no excuse. My memory is that it's not within walking distance of the Vashon ferry terminal right? Not that I've ever left a nursery with only enough items that I can carry of course.

I know this post is way old, but does anyone have this plant up for trade? If so, please email me - thanks!

I am growing mine from seeds, so if anyone has some advice please do not hesitate to share!!

Well, rats! Not having grown leycesteria before, I'd looked it up online and read that it is deer resistant....not so? I was given quite a few seedlings and they've been in the ground two years now with no problems with the deer so far. There are 6 of them in a row behind our garage addition which is just outside the area I've recently enclosed to keep deer out...an area for container grown veggies and tub grown blueberries, etc. We do get deer but only occasionally and they've not gone after the leycesteria yet. I also just two days ago planted two more out in the front side yard...discouraging. At this point I will resign myself to spraying them with dilute lavender oil and cheap perfume...LOL...

My leycesteria came from a friend in Pistol River, she's on acreage, lots of plants, lots of deer...the deer have never eaten her leycesteria....she has a lot of them...

I'm on a small town lot, lots f plants, fewer deer...deer have not touched my leycesteria in 2 years.

Neither one of us fertilizes our plants, if anyone has deer eating their leycesteria, do you fertilize?

It is considered to be deer resistant but deer resistance does not imply deer proof :-) Deer will sample anything if they are of a mind to (especially juvenile deer) and depending on what other vegetation is available that tickles their fancy, they can graze any plant heavily....even those considered to be poisonous.

I myself live in Deer Central, Kitsap County and they have yet to discover or munch on my leycesteria. I do have a dog and although he is quite small and no match for a deer, they tend to avoid coming close to the house where he hangs out. That's where I stash all my good stuff that I would be devastated if the deer consumed.

I will hope for the best for mine....

I just went out and took a closer look at things and see that the deer have been by to sample my Arctic Fire Osiers...a few tips...the leycesteria are about 6 feet from the Osiers and untouched so far,also unbothered is my purple leaf plum a few feet away...