- Eventual Height: 0.3m
- Eventual Spread: 1.5m
Fragaria vesca
alpine strawberry
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size: 2 litre pot
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available to order from summer 2012
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- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: any soil
- Rate of growth: fast-growing
- Flowering period: May
- Flower colour: white
- Other features: makes a useful groundcover
- Hardiness: fully hardy
A great little plant, which will produce edible strawberries in summer provided they have a sunny spot. The small fruits are not as sweet and full of flavour as their closely related, cultivated varieties, but they are tasty, colourful and good fun to pick nonetheless. This is a wonderful groundcovering plant with bright green, 3-palmate leaves that remain on the plant throughout the year - except in very harsh winters when their foliage may die back temporarily. A lovely addition to the edge of a cottage garden bed, or for lining an open, woodland walkway.
- Garden care:Cut off runners from the parent plant and transplant the new plantlets to increase stock.
- Eventual Height: 0.3m
- Eventual Spread: 1.5m
Fragaria vesca - alpine strawberry
A useful groundcover with edible fruits
