Source: Nearly Native Nursery (GA)
Size shipped: #1 pot... but without the actual pots (measured under 1' and unbranched)
Planted: #2 Air-Pot, Fafard 52 and pine bark and Osmocote Plus, April 2021
First flowering: Not yet
My original plan for these was to use two of them as a screen/border of sorts along the south fence in the southwest corner of the property, and maybe keep the third one in a pot. However, the specimens that I got from Nearly Native Nursery were so small that I figured I needed to grow them all on in pots for a while if they were to have a decent chance of survival when finally planted out.
And make no mistake, I do place a higher priority than usual on the survival of these specimens, because I have found only three nurseries this side of the Mississippi that even carry this plant: Quackin' Grass (CT), Nearly Native (GA), and Mail Order Natives (FL). Quackin' Grass wanted twice the price for a smaller pot size and was out of stock anyway, and I don't like ordering from Florida because the latitude difference between there and here makes it so that I never know what time of year is safe to ship plants without damaging them in transit or else messing with their growth cycles, so Nearly Native got the order.
The three devilwoods have taken well to New Jersey so far, coming close to doubling in size in their first season with us, but unfortunately two of them got grazed by animals in mid-July. Still, this was better than the American wisteria sitting next to them fared. There was a point early on when they had some chlorosis going on, but a mid-May application of Espoma Iron-tone fixed that and it hasn't recurred since.
However, the winter of 2022 demonstrated that (at least in pots) these devilwoods aren't actually as evergreen as advertised in a normal New Jersey winter, as by April, they had lost all their leaves (despite looking okay earlier in the winter) -- a similar situation to the wax-myrtles, except that I knew those were borderline hardy and wasn't expecting too much. So that's one more broadleaved evergreen I cannot actually use for hedging and screening around here like I thought...