Snowberry

The Snowberry is a garden classic, but also a native shrub, so it’s ideal for today’s modern gardens of native plants and natural plantings. It forms a rounded shrub 3 to 5 feet tall, with clusters of pink flowers in summer and large white berries in fall and through much of the winter. The neat rounded leaves are an attractive green, forming a calm background to other plants. It’s very hardy and easy to grow, so ideal for difficult urban gardens, woodland gardens, and low-maintenance natural plantings.

• Classic filler and background shrub
• Clusters of white berries through fall and winter
• Pink flowers in summer
• Grows well in poor soil and shade
• Very cold hardy, and deer resistant too.

Very cold-hardy, the Snowberry grows even in zone 2. It tolerates shade well, although the most berries are found on bushes growing in the sun. It grows in all kinds of soils that aren’t wet or flooded, thriving on rocky slopes and poor soils, including clays and alkaline soil. It is generally pest and disease free and deer will at most take a few berries. Some thinning out is all the attention needed, and that is optional.