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Plant: Emerald Gaiety - Wintercreeper
Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald Gaiety'
Size: 1 gal
Light
Bloom
More about this plant
Emerald Gaiety is a dense, rounded wintercreeper euonymus with glossy green leaves edged in white, reaching about 5 feet tall and 6 feet wide at maturity. It takes sun to partial shade, and shade encourages the variegation. It works as a border, hedge, specimen or bank cover, but it is listed as invasive in North Carolina and prone to euonymus scale.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Emerald Gaiety is a dense, rounded wintercreeper euonymus with glossy green leaves edged in white, reaching about 5 feet tall and 6 feet wide at maturity. It takes sun to partial shade, and shade encourages the variegation. It works as a border, hedge, specimen or bank cover, but it is listed as invasive in North Carolina and prone to euonymus scale.
- Flowers
- Inconspicuous greenish-white flowers, about a quarter inch across, in early summer.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, glossy ovate leaves 1 to 3 inches long, green edged in white, with a pink cast in fall.
- Fruit
- Small orange to red capsules in fall that birds eat.
- Bark & stems
- Zig-zag green to reddish stems on dark brown to gray bark, smooth.
- Native range
- East Asia (China, Japan and Korea)
