Re: Understory "groundcover"
- Subject: Re: [SG] Understory "groundcover"
- From: G*
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:16:06 -0400
Hello Bobbi,
Partridgeberry is also native here locally. I just completed a plant portrait
on this one for a magazine to be published this fall or early winter.
This plant is iron-clad... nothing seems to bother it. I have had it several
years now in the garden and it has always been brightly evergreen, usually with a
few berries remaining until the next year's blooms come on. Hugs the ground like a
pancake. I use mine for filling in spots after Arisaema have gone dormant.
It is commercially available here.... just sold out and I am growing more up
in the holding area for this fall or next spring.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Bobbi Diehl <diehlr@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SG] Understory "groundcover"
> A darling short groundcover that I just saw growing wild in the mountains
> of North Carolina is Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens). It seems to be
> evergreen with white flowers and sweet red berries. Will that work for
> you, and is it commercially available?
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> Bobbi Diehl
> Bloomington, IN
> zone 5/6
