Calluna Species, Ling, Scotch Heather

This is a cool summer plant, not recommended for growing south of Z6 in eastern North America. It dislikes the hot humid summers of the m...Read Moreidwest and the southeast. It dislikes rich soil and hates clay. Grows best in full sun in sandy acid soils without too much organic matter.

Older plants look best with an annual spring pruning. Established plants tolerate drought.

The evergreen foliage color varies with cultivar, but often turns shades of bronze/brown in winter, greening up again in spring.

This looks great where it has naturalized in the lean sandy acid soils of Cape Cod, MA.

This is everywhere in Norway, where it is known as 'lyng'. Along the coastal pine strip, in the inland spruce forests, and on high altitu...Read Morede birch plateaus, the ground is covered in heather wherever it hasn't lost the battle to its cousins - the lingonberry and the bilberry.

Common ornamental used to brighten up around evergreen shrubs and trees such as the thuja.

Can be a stubborn germinator in temperatures under 70F (20C). Tiny bristled seedlings are slow growing, but gradually increase in size un...Read Moreder bright light and with adequate moisture in peat-based seedling mixes. Patience is required.

Giving a neutral note for the plants finickness and so so garden merit.... Pretty overall but sometimes not worth the trouble.... prett...Read Morey little leaves and flowers but has hard time surviving winter without lots of die back if at all.... One finally survived the winter but is all brown and will probably need lots of time to recuperate which also means look decent! Probably nice in slightly warmer zones I'm in 6a 7b in fairly to very acidic soil.....