These are everywhere here and get very big, about 15 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide. They are popular because they grow fast and make a tight hedge or screening if you want to hide something or from something. Otherwise, you have to prune it a lot. The new growth is susceptible to Entomosporium leaf spot. This will kill the shrub unless you spray regularly with a fungicide.

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Very hardy here in my zone. I have one that has been growing on the deck in a wooden planter for several years with no problems. Moderate growth rate. Prune to prevent legginess.

Fast-growing evergreen with lush, glossy green foliage, topped by brilliant red new growth. Leaves are lance-shaped, to 8 inches long. Extremely durable screen, hedge, or mass planting where black spot fungus is not a problem. Good air circulation key.

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There are about 60 species of Photinia from East Asia & the Himalayas that are mostly broadleaf evergreen shrubs and small trees, but some deciduous species also. The name of "Photinia" comes from Greek and means "shining" because the foliage is usually shiny. (A word spelled with PH in modern English always comes from Greek, as does PS & RH.) Because the small white flowers in clusters, the small red or blue-black fruit, and the leaves look so much like Chokeberry shrubs (Aronia) in eastern North America, many of the newest botanists have included the genus of Aronia into Photinia. I'm normally a "lumper" and not a "splitter," but I favour continuing with Aronia as separate genus; I'm also an older person. This Frasier Photinia is sold and planted occasionally in the Philadelphia, PA region in USDA Zone 6b and does alright there. There are lots more in Delaware and more still in the South. This hybrid broadleaf evergreen is noted as bearing its young growth with a red color. I have seen lots of leaf spot disease in southeast PA and in Delaware on this hybrid species. I'd rather plant a Chokeberry shrub, as I love them so much.

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