Educate Yourself About the Wintergreen and Its Visiting Pheasants
Wintergreen
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) will be the best pick for a shady area; it produces brilliant red berries and is well liked by at least eight different kinds of ground feeding birds. The Bobwhites and Ring-necked Pheasants enjoy the wintergreens berries as well.
The wintergreen is a slow-growing, trailing plant, and likes some sun, with cool, moist soil, and with low to moderate fertility. Its height will grow to less than 1ft (.3m), and will have a spread of around 3-4ft (.9-1.2m). One alternative is the Creeping Snowberry (G. hispidula).
