Emerald Beauty Cotoneaster

The Emerald Beauty Cotoneaster is an evergreen shrub suitable for ground cover that is always attractive, with arching branches and small, glossy, dark-green leaves. It stays just 12 to 18 inches tall, but a single plant can cover an area 6 feet across within a few years. It’s perfect on slopes, over rocky areas, and spilling over walls. Use it at the front of larger beds, especially along drives and pathways. It has white flowers in late spring, followed by a heavy crop of orange-red berries that last through fall and well into the winter months. Food for birds in winter, and bees and butterflies in summer, it’s the perfect low-maintenance garden choice.

• Wide-spreading evergreen groundcover
• Attractive arching branches form a weed-proof covering
• Outstanding display of orange-red berries through fall and early winter
• ideal for slopes and rocky places
• Selected for its improved disease-resistance

Full sun, or just a little shade, is perfect for the Emerald Beauty Cotoneaster. It will grow in any ordinary garden, but avoid wet ground. It grows well in poor, dry soils, and it’s drought resistant in all but the hottest zones, where some supplementary watering in summer might be needed. This variety, an improved version of ‘Coral Beauty’, is 10 times more resistant to fire blight, and normally left alone by other pests or diseases. It can be trimmed as needed.