Description
The easiest way to a lush carpet of green.
Ground Hug® aronia is a super tough native shrub that naturally grows as a dense groundcover. This unique habit makes it the ideal plant for transforming difficult areas into beautiful, low maintenance plantings. Spring brings a flurry of dainty white flowers nestled among the glossy green foliage; come fall, dark purple berries develop, along with outstanding red foliage. Like our other aronias, Ground Hug is super durable, growing well even in challenging soil and conditions – it’s up to your toughest landscape challenges!
Top reasons to grow Ground Hug aronia:
– Naturally grows as dense groundcover, keeping down weeds, stabilizing soil, and beautifying difficult areas.
– White flowers in spring plus vivid fall color.
– Tolerant of most any soil conditions.
Aronia is one of the toughest, most durable shrubs, and needs little care. If you wish to prune, the best time is immediately after it blooms. Because Low Scape Hedger does not set fruit, pruning after flowering does not impact the fall display as it would in other aronias.
Wondering about deer resistance? It varies. We have found that in areas with heavy deer or rabbit activity, they may eat the flower buds in early spring, when food supplies are scarce. However, they do not typically continue browsing aronia after that, so are unlikely to cause severe or disfiguring damage to the plant itself.
Aronia’s common name, chokeberry, comes from the extremely astringent taste of the fruit.
