Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction a small multi-stemmed specimen

a small multi-stemmed specimen

tropical-looking bloom to lean

Clethra alnifolia

the milky sap keeps deer and rabbits off

non-self-sowing alternative to the common butterfly bush

Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction a small multi-stemmed specimenArdisia 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