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Garden Tips - Groundcovers
Bearberry - Flowering pink in the spring with bright red
berries in the fall and winter, Bearberry thrives in poor soil with a
showing of bright, glossy green leaves.
Bunchberry - Prefering the cool and acidic soil found in shade, it produces red berries and green foliage which turns purple in the fall.
Canby's Pachistima - Shade or full sun and moist, acidic soil. Evergreen with dark green foliage.
Wintergreen - needs acidic soil, preferably sandy, in the
shade. Its green foliage and small red fruit are edible and attributed
with many medicinal properties including antiseptic and analgesic.
Sweet Woodruff - Subtle fragrance, shiny green leaves and small white star-shaped flowers. Perfect as partial shady woodland ground cover in moist, slightly acid soil.
Bugle Flower - Rapid spreading foliage available in purple, pink or variegated green and white. Blue 6” flower spikes in May. Full sun to partial shade.
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