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Growing Herbs in Your Garden
These shrubs share with heathers their antipathy to an alkaline soil. They do, however, make splendid ground cover in shade for given a cool peaty soil they quickly colonise the available space with spreading underground stems. Gaultheria miqueliana from North America runs up the peat walls, hugging the ground with intimate affection. The white or pink, berries are conspicuous for only a brief period, due I believe to scrumping mice.