Erica × darleyensis (Darley Dale Heath) Southeastern Native hanging clear amber-gold fruit each

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

and opossums

Ilex verticillata 'Jim Dandy' is a small shrub with an outsized job

and other fine-textured

The maple sets abundant winged samaras

Erica × darleyensis (Darley Dale Heath) Southeastern Native hanging clear amber-gold fruit eachHeaths 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