Ummm....I suppose it's just possible that it's some variant of prostrate abelia with pink flowers, but this isn't a nursery that tends to have anything unusual, and they had a lot of it for quite awhile. I do know that I always pass on abelia in the nursery! The leaves are neither dark nor glossy. They are somewhat darker than what you see here, however. I can't remember how the flowers look, except that they're small, pink and very visible. There's no orange throat. They also don't have all that extra "stuff" I see around pictures of abelia bloom. It has a low growing, arching habit. It used to sit in an ornamental pot on my 2nd story porch railing. It arched out and down. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the new growth *is* bronzy. I know that some of the leaves turn dark red in the fall. I'll go look at it again if it ever stops raining. I'm frustated that it isn't something straightforward. We're putting in a shrubby groundcover, and I wanted to convince my husband to use this instead of bearberry, because the bloom is more noticeable.

Hi, I was looking for the coral beauty cotoneaster. Anybody know of it being sold within driving distance of Durham/Chapel Hill area? Thanks.

80,000 year old aspen grove, Remarkable indeed seeing how they would have been underneath a mile of ice at the time :) Recently my part of the country hosted their annual nursery trade show with 960 vendors. Wanna know how many were displaying bearberry??? Zilch, Nada, Nary a one. Its just not a plant seen very often around here. I've seen it only one time in a cultivated setting, along a govt building in DC where it grew happily. Undeterred by bad luck at the trade show I did in fact find a wholesale nursery in New Jersey with a beautiful supply of plants, not that it bothers me but this is clearly a clone, no berries.

Probably would be better in a cooler drier-summer climate. I have never grown it, but it is reported to be more prone to pest and disease (root rot, black mildew, leaf gall, leaf spot, and rust) in climates like ours. It is not native to Tennessee or the SE.