Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction or set the plant among

or set the plant among dwarf conifers and other acid-lovers for a heath-and-heather tapestry of contrasting textures

the milky sap keeps deer and rabbits off

and rain lilies make natural companions in the same damp ground

Deer generally leave the fronds alone

The fruit is too sharp to eat straight

Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction or set the plant amongArdisia 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