Dark Beauty heather
Calluna vulgaris 'Dark Beauty'
RHS AGM 2002
USDA zones5 to 8
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Ascending
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Dark Beauty' heather (Calluna vulgaris 'Dark Beauty') is an evergreen shrub for borders, containers, rock gardens, and ground cover. It is hardy to USDA zone 5, or down to -20°F (-29°C). This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. It blooms in early to late summer and again in early to late autumn. It sits low on the menu for deer. Bees visit the flowers.
Pairs well with Norway spruce, Karl Foerster feather reed grass, and Bloodgood Japanese maple.