Snowberry or Coralberry
Symphoricarpos species (CAPRIFOLIACEAE)
Planting and Growing Snowberry
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow snowberrry or coralberry in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, fruit, and seeds of snowberrry or coralberry
- Growing conditions for snowberrry or coralberry
- When and where to plant snowberrry or coralberry
- How to plant snowberrry or coralberry
- How to shape, prune and control growth of snowberrry or coralberry
- Watering, fertilizing, and care of snowberrry or coralberry
- Landscape uses of snowberrry or coralberry
- Pest and disease control for snowberrry or coralberry
Growing Snowberry
About 16 species of fast-growing, upright or spreading, deciduous shrubs, 2–6 ft. (60–180 cm) tall, depending on species, with matte, green, round or oval, slightly lobed leaves, to 2 in. (50 mm) long.
Snowberry Planting and Care Guide
Flowers and Fruit
Many tiny, green, pink, white flowers, in grapelike clusters, in spring–summer, form white, round, mealy, seed-filled fruit, to 1/4‑in. (6‑mm) wide, in autumn.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 3–9, depending on species.
Soil Type and Fertility
Damp, well-drained soil. Fertility: Average. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Filtered sun. Space 1–3 ft. (30–90 cm) apart, depending on species.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep damp; allow soil surface to dry between waterings. Fertilize annually in spring. Prune to shape, control growth. Propagate by cuttings, division, seed.
About This Species
Good choice for backgrounds, ground covers, slopes in shade, woodland gardens. Attracts birds, butterflies, hummingbirds. Aphid, caterpillar, scale and anthracnose susceptible.