Erica × darleyensis (Darley Dale Heath) Southeastern Native For all that fragility in

For all that fragility in the wild

and opossums

hanging clear amber-gold fruit each winter against dark olive-green foliage

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Give these trees room to round out

Erica × darleyensis (Darley Dale Heath) Southeastern Native For all that fragility inHeaths and heathers run to dozens of species and hundreds of named forms, and most of them sulk in the heat and humidity of the American South. Erica darleyensis, a hybrid of two European mountain heaths, Erica erigena and Erica carnea, is one of the happy exceptions, tough and adaptable enough to give Southern gardeners a real chance at a plant most only admire in cooler climates. The renowned plantsman Michael Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape