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Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' - Lingonberry - Ericaceae (The Heath Family)
Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' - Lingonberry - Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' is a dwarf, compact lingonberry or partridgeberry with white flowers and tasty, tart red fruit.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' - Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' is a dwarf, compact lingonberry or partridgeberry with white flowers and tasty, tart red fruit.
  
11cm
Price: $19.99
Zone Hardiness: 2-9
Light: Part Shade, Full Shade
Height: 8-12"
Width: 8-12"
Flower Colour: White/Cream

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Availability: Shipping begins in May/June when plants are ready.
Product Code: 11927
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Description Fine Print
 
Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' lets you have your pie and eat it too! This little evergreen shrub is very strong, very compact, and very small with a rounded growth habit to just 12 inches tall and wide. But don't let its size fool you as it produces masses of tasty, tart berries that can be used for jams, pies and other treats. White flowers appear in late spring followed by the red berries that can stay on the shrub over winter. Awesome as a ground cover and in a container for ornamental purposes. Lingonberries are popular wild harvested fruits in Scandinavia and Newfoundland where they are called partridgeberries. The breeder of this cultivar suggests zone 5 hardiness but this species is hardy to zone 2 so we think 'Red Candy' should be just fine in cold climates.
Details
  • Class: Evergreen
  • Soil Moisture: Average, Moist
  • Flowering Time: Late Spring
  • Fragrant: No
  • Foliage Colour: Good Fall Colour, Green, Burgundy/Red/Purple
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Attracts: Bees
  • Habitat:
  • Geographical Origin: Americas - North America, Asia and the Pacific - North Central and Eastern Asia, Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia, Miscellaneous - Circumboreal
  • BC Native: Yes