Can someone help me resolve a difference of opinion regarding whether the roots of this plant are likely to damage a stone wall? The landscape designer specified Euonymous Japonica Green Spire for a 2' high hedge edging a newly built dry-stack stone wall. The mason who built the wall says that because this variety can grow to 12' high, the root system will be large and may damage the wall. The landscape designer disagrees. If the Green Spire Euonymous is not suitable for this purpose, can anyone recommend an alternative variety. The plants are in the ground already but I will exchange them if I need to. Many thanks and apologies if I have posted this to the wrong forum; I am a "newby" both to gardening and to this forum.
Would be likely to do something like push a few stones apart only if growing in wall or right next to it. Will never cause it to fall. Likely to take decades to reach full size: 14.5 feet tall and 6 feet wide at 21 years http://www.usna.usda.gov/Newintro/greensp6.pdf
Thank you for your helpful advice Ron. The hedge IS growing right beside the wall but we want to keep it short - only 2 ft high. Would you suggest exchanging the Green Spire variety for a different Euonymous or leaving things as they are?
I'd be bothered by the fact that the shrub was being kept from achieving the spire shape that distinguished it.
