Gaultheria procumbens (American Wintergreen)
This northeastern cousin of salal provides edible red berries through the winter and a rich green and purple carpet year-around! Leaves and fruit taste like wintergreen! Berries are an excellent winter food for some wildlife such as birds and deer.
Best grown in organically rich and well-drained soils in part to full shade. This wintergreen may need an occasional summer drink of water - even after establishment - as it"s not as drought-tolerant as our native Gaultheria.
This northeastern cousin of salal provides edible red berries through the winter and a rich green and purple carpet year-around! Leaves and fruit taste like wintergreen! Berries are an excellent winter food for some wildlife such as birds and deer.
Best grown in organically rich and well-drained soils in part to full shade. This wintergreen may need an occasional summer drink of water - even after establishment - as it"s not as drought-tolerant as our native Gaultheria.
This northeastern cousin of salal provides edible red berries through the winter and a rich green and purple carpet year-around! Leaves and fruit taste like wintergreen! Berries are an excellent winter food for some wildlife such as birds and deer.
Best grown in organically rich and well-drained soils in part to full shade. This wintergreen may need an occasional summer drink of water - even after establishment - as it"s not as drought-tolerant as our native Gaultheria.