![]() They also act as natural pest controls, reducing the need for pesticides in the garden. Naturally adapted to the climate and soil conditions of the region, they thrive without fertilizers or extra watering, once established. Native plants are not only beautiful but also environmentally friendly. Although it is an excellent container or specimen plant, it is shown to best effect when massed in the garden or landscape.Įxtremely cold hardy and low maintenance, Vaccinium 'Red Candy' Lingonberry grows best in shady to shade-dappled locations with humus-rich, moist, well-draining soil, having an acidic pH.Ī native plant, lingonberry is indigenous to North America. ![]() Vaccinium 'Red Candy' Lingonberry has a compact, low-growing, mat-forming habit, growing just 8 inches tall and 10 inches wide, that makes a gorgeous ground cover. ![]() The tart berries can be eaten fresh off the bush but are best sweetened with sugar and used in pies or other sweet treats, such as preserves, jellies, and lingonberry jam, which is very famous and popular in Sweden. ![]() The berries are long-lasting on the shrub and attract birds and butterflies. An early- and heavy-flowering and -fruiting variety, Vaccinium 'Red Candy' Lingonberry blooms in loose, terminal clusters of small, nodding, pink-blushed white flowers in summer followed by abundant clusters of round scarlet berries. Small native pollinators help to move the pollen.Vaccinium 'Red Candy' is a highly attractive broadleaf evergreen subshrub, also called lingonberry or cowberry bush, valued not only for fruit production but also for ornamental purposes. The plants are self fruitful however crops can be increased with multiple varieties. The small bell-shaped flowers are well loved by many native bees and other pollinators. If you are growing as a low hedge, you may need to use a sharp spade to keep them growing between the lines as they do spread slowly through underground stems. The berries are produced over a long time period and are often held throughout the winter. They are very pretty and look fantastic in groupings. Make sure your plants do not get too dry in their pots and glazed or plastic pots are better than porous clay in holding in moisture. Lingonberries can be grown in low and wide, well draining containers in part sun. They are extremely hardy once they find their ideal growing conditions and can withstand zone 3 conditions! They would actually work wonderfully interspaced between blueberry bushes. They will produce a lot of berries in a full to part sun position, with a loamy, consistently moist (but not heavy wet) acidic soil. Lingonberries are in the Ericaceae family, the same family as heather so appreciate the same type of planting spaces. The berries are an important staple for many first peoples and are very popular accompaniments to many Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian meals! The Lingonberry is native to much of the Northern Hemisphere and is found throughout both the Taiga and the Tundra of the Arctic. Lingonberry plants produce small red berries with a tart flavour and all of the antioxidant, and infection fighting benefits of cranberries. Lingonberries are an easy-care evergreen berry producing dwarf shrub which can slowly spread to fill out as a low groundcover type shrub or a mini hedge.
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