Cassiope are a valuable group of small wiry stemmed ericaceous perennials with white bell-like flowers blooming in spring. Leaves are unstalked and densely overlap.

Tips for Growing Cassiope

• Grow in lime free sandy or mossy soil. Very hardy if given good drainage.
• The smaller varieties are good alpine house and pot plants growing below 12″ high.
• Plants are cheap to buy and can be propagated from cuttings or by pegging down.
• Plants hybridise quite easily.
• Grow in a cool shady or semi-shady places in the rock garden or shrub border.

Hybrids and Species to Grow

• Cassiope Randle Cooke is a super little Cassiope with deep green leaves closely clasping the stems.
• Cassiope Badenoch shown above has a mass of off-white bell shaped flowers
• Cassiope Edinburgh another wiry stemmed ericaceous perennial with tightly packed deep green leaves and larger white bell-like flowers in spring.

• Cassiope mertensiana is a shrubby dwarf evergreen perennial with pale green glossy leaves
• Cassiope tetragona (common names include Arctic bell-heather,
• Cassiope ericoides
• Cassiope fastigiata
• Cassiope hypnoides
• Cassiope selaginoides
• Cassiope stelle Riana
• Cassiope wardii are all part of the 11 species of Cassiope

If you have difficulty finding plants try Alpine specialists or The Plant Finder.

For something a bit different read Growing Calceolaria