Tina
Seattle,WA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: A ground cover with red hard berries.. |
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I love this.I saw it in my office yard and am planning to take some of them home!!!
What are these called? They are very short with upright stems, small leaves reddish/greenish in color and a few of the branches have hard red berries hanging from them.These plants have been used as ground cover in my office yard and they are every where so I figured that they should be pretty easy to grow.
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CritterPainter
Washington State
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Could be kinnickinnick if it's in Washington.
Does it have thorns of any kind?
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zuzu's petals
Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Not meaning to be nosey, Tina,  but it might help to know what part of the world you live in.
This is a real shot in the dark, as I don't know anything such as leaf shape,
or if you mean 1 inch tall or 1 foot tall when you say short.
But one of the plants here in N. Carolina which has hard red berries
and small reddish/greeish leaves at this time of year is Dwarf Nandina.
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Tina
Seattle,WA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: Sorry it slipped my mind... |
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I live in Seattle, WA.
And no I have not noticed any thorns.The stems are a little hard and they are about 4" tall.I will try and include a picture soon.
Thanks for helping though.
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Jungle Joy
Northern Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: Hmmm might be |
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Wintergreen? Grows 3 to 4 inches high; has shiny, oval, leathery 2 inch leaves, that turn reddish in fall. Small white urn shaped flowers dangle under the leaves in early summer, followed by bright red fruit in fall. Crush the leaves in your fingers, if they are wintergreen you will smell it!
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CritterPainter
Washington State
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Aha, Seattle! Then it could well be our native kinnickinick! Extremely slow growing, though. The NA's would dry it and smoke it like tobacco. There, your Wa State history lesson for today, lol!
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GardenFanantic
Missouri - Zone 5a
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Kinnickinick(Uva-Ursi Arctostaphylos)
Nice compact evergreen ground cover that gets some red winter cover. In the spring this plant produces little white/ light pink bell shaped flowers(similar to the blueberry flower). In fall it puts on little red berries.
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