Low Scape Mound Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa 'Low Scape Mound'
The full chokeberry payoff in a tidy knee-high mound: spring bloom, red fall color, winter berries. Deer-proof and grows in clay.
Typically 1 quart–3 gal · $17–$85 · final price at pickup
- Thu, Aug 138 AM – 4 PM
- Fri, Aug 148 AM – 4 PM
- Sat, Aug 158 AM – 2 PM
Full-species wildlife value in a container-sized package that needs zero maintenance to look good.
Low Scape Mound is the ground-hugging chokeberry that brings everything the full-size shrub does, spring bloom, fall color, winter berries, in a package that works at the front of a border, in a container, or massed across a slope. It stays twelve to twenty-four inches tall and spreads a bit wider, forming a dense, tidy mound that needs no shearing to hold its shape. White flowers in spring feed native bees. Glossy dark berries ripen in fall and persist into winter for the birds. Then the fall color hits: glossy leaves turning bright red while the berries are still hanging. It's a genuine four-season plant packed into a foot-and-a-half frame. Deer won't touch it, it tolerates drought once established, and it grows in clay.
A nursery-grown plant, ready for the ground.
Healthy, container-grown low scape mound chokeberry propagated on-site at Hill House from regional genetics. Includes a one-page care card. We make every effort to supply plants as listed; occasionally we substitute a similar species of equal value.
Plant low scape mound chokeberry instead of Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii). Same job in the garden, without the spread.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Average
- Mature size
- 1.5–2 ft · 24–36 in wide
- Bloom time
- Spring
- Bloom color
- White
- USDA zones
- 3–9
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Native range
- Eastern North America from Newfoundland to Florida (straight species)
Care notes for low scape mound chokeberry.
Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions including clay, sand, and wet soils. Full sun to part shade; best color in full sun. Drought tolerant once established, but benefits from consistent moisture the first season. No pruning needed. Plant in groups of three or more for the best visual effect.
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