Virginia Creeper vs Purple Leaf Sand Cherry - TreeTime.ca

Virginia Creeper vs Purple Leaf Sand Cherry

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Prunus x cistena

COMING SOON

(new stock expected: fall of 2025)

CUSTOM GROW

Virginia Creeper
Purple Leaf Sand Cherry

Virginia Creeper is a fast-growing, climbing vine. Its root-like tendrils attach themselves to any non-smooth surface, even brick, but will also grow as a ground cover.

Virginia Creeper makes a beautiful ornamental plant for your garden; its attractive foliage turns from green to deep red in the fall. Birds will love its red berries.

Purple Leaf Sand Cherry provides bright reddish-purple leaves that turn bronze-green in the fall. In the spring, tiny flowers with a pinkish white hue bloom. The flowers are small, but the impact comes from the shrub blossoming all at once.

The Purple leaf sand cherry can be susceptible to pests and diseases in more humid areas; a typical life span is approximately 15 years. Not suitable for a privacy hedge on its own but is often alternated with lilacs. Often used as an accent plant that attracts birds and bees.

Virginia Creeper Quick Facts

Purple Leaf Sand Cherry Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 3a
Height: 0.3 m (1.0 ft)
Height: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Spread: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Light: any
Light: any
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: medium
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Suckering: high
Suckering: low

Toxicity: berries are toxic

Toxicity: the leaves and seed are slightly toxic
Foliage: purple leaves
Fall colour: red and purple
Fall colour: dark red
Bark: dark red to purple
Flowers: pinkish
Fruit: dark red fruit
Berries: small, hard, purple
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: ON
Other Names: five-finger, five-leaved ivy
Other Names: purpleleaf sandcherry