Re: Help growing Gaultheria procumbens

Barb and others

Perhaps low soil fertility might be a key as well as the other factors you
mentioned. I have tried to grow annuals such as impatiens and begonias
nearby (it has more dappled sunlight) but they grow rather poorly even with
fertilizer and water. Of course I never bother to fertilize the area around
the wintergreen. Vinca minor grows well under the same soil conditions.

Perhaps the mass of small  surface roots from the pine  allows the soil to
dry out quickly and keeps it well drained.

I have had luck taking cuttings and sowing  it from seed. I just wish the
phlox stolonifera  and hardy cyclamens nearby would grow and spread !


Al Krismer
Cincinnati  Ohio
Zone 6

Barb Pernacciaro wrote:

> I've only seen this (wintergreen) in the wild as a kid on the annual
> vacation to northern Wisconsin - growing on a 45 degree sandy slope
> leading down to a lake under pine trees. Acid soil. I always had to pick
> and crush a leaf to enjoy the fragrance. I bet acidity and drainage are
> the key.
>
> -Barb in WI
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