Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction tropical-looking bloom to lean

tropical-looking bloom to lean

or set the plant among dwarf conifers and other acid-lovers for a heath-and-heather tapestry of contrasting textures

'Aztec Pearl' is a neat

a small multi-stemmed specimen

Clethra alnifolia

Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction tropical-looking bloom to leanArdisia japonica 'Hakuokan' is a jewel of the Japanese shade garden, a low evergreen groundcover whose small, glossy, leathery leaves are edged in a clean band of creamy white. The green species, called yabukoji in Japan and marlberry in English, has grown wild in the woodland understory of Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan for ages, spreading quietly by underground runners into knee low colonies. 'Hakuokan', a name that reads roughly as white royal