in every post.. its imperative to know where you are.. or make your location show.. like mine does ...

the plants with white or yellow SPRING tissue,... green up ... rather fast in sun ... or heat.. or location ...

so it is usually suggested. to plant them in shade ... to make the show last a bit longer ... in my MI ... the show can be 5 days.. to 3 weeks.. depending completely on weather ....

which is why growth rates are listed as variable .... perhaps it grows 8 inches in full sun.. and 2 inches in a lot of shade ...

i wonder if some of these short show plants are any good the further south you go ...

there is no reason why you cant compare it to p pungens spring ghost .. they ought to be rather consistent in growth rates ... as they are birds of a feather ...

try google images with the full latin names ...

i also wonder how st joseph compares to st marys broom .... st mary may be a smaller growing version .. i suspect joe came from mary.. as mary has been around forever ...

ken

Thanks, Ken. I'm in z6 MA.

I'd be planting Niemetz in about 5 hours full sun. I'll check out spring ghost. Niemetz seems to have a more irregular structure, so I wasn't sure how they would compare.