Is Pyrenees Cotoneaster deer resistant?
Cotoneaster congestus
About Pyrenees Cotoneaster
A dense low mound with small evergreen leaves and red fruit, useful in rock gardens and over walls. As with all cotoneasters, fireblight is the thing that disfigures it, killing shoots back in blackened sections that must be cut out well below the damage.
Soil and care
- Soil pH
- 6 to 7.5
- Drainage
- Well drained
- Water
- Low
- Spacing
- 35 to 47 in apart
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Maintenance
- Low
Similar to Pyrenees Cotoneaster
Other shrubs with the same deer rating.
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Where Pyrenees Cotoneaster grows
Hardy across most of these 45 states on zone range alone. Mountain and coastal areas sit outside the ranges used here, so check your own zone before ordering.
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- New York
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- Virginia
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- Georgia
- Texas
- Colorado
- California
- Oregon
- Washington
- New Hampshire
- Maine
- Rhode Island
- Delaware
- West Virginia
- Kentucky
- South Carolina
- Florida
- Alabama
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Arkansas
- Oklahoma
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- Iowa
- Montana
- Wyoming
- Idaho
- Utah
- Nevada
- Arizona
- New Mexico
- Alaska
- District of Columbia
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Hardy in these zones
Common questions about Pyrenees Cotoneaster
- Is Pyrenees Cotoneaster deer resistant?
- Pyrenees Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster congestus) is rated Seldom Severely Damaged on the Rutgers NJAES four-tier scale. Light browsing at worst; rarely ruined.
- What hardiness zones does Pyrenees Cotoneaster grow in?
- Pyrenees Cotoneaster is hardy in USDA zones 6 to 8. Outside that range it will either not survive winter or will struggle with summer heat.
- Does Pyrenees Cotoneaster grow in shade?
- No. Pyrenees Cotoneaster wants full sun and will grow thin and flop in shade.