Gaultheria procumbens
25th October 2014
A small creeping species that has become accidentally popular by producing bright red berries that persist well through the winter.
It is now widely available as a winter bedding plant used to liven up tubs and hanging baskets through the gloomy period
before winter. By January it is a spent force.
A North American species, I intend to plant it out in a dampish shaded corner and see if it prospers and becomes a low mat of evergreen foliage.
The alternative is that it drops dead like those sold as bedding.
18th July 2015