Wintercreeper
- Botanical Name
- Euonymus fortunei
- Hardiness
- Zones 4 to 9
- Height
- 6 to 24 inches up to 15 feet (depending on cultivar)
- Width
- Spreading, vine-like
- Flowers
- Late spring: greenish-white
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Plant in a protected site or east exposure where plant will be safe from winter wind and sun
- Will attach and climb up structures
- Loosely tie the main stem and side branches of young plants to your chosen support structure. Once clinging rootlets form, plant will support itself.
- Prune in early spring. Remove weak, damaged, dead and winter injured branches back to a healthy branch
- Can be invasive in some areas
- Problems
- Scale, anthracnose, crown gall, leaf spot, mildew, aphids
- Varieties
- Blondy - bright yellow marked foliage
- Emerald Gaiety - small, erect shrub, 4' tall
- Emerald 'n Gold - 2' tall, leaves edged in yellow
- Euonymus fortunei var. radicans - usual groundcover form
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