Ugni molinae Groundcover Shrubs a soft haze of color

a soft haze of color rather than a solid mass

in a native bed

slow-growing deciduous tree that ranges through rich forests from southern Canada to the Gulf

so a patch tends to renew itself and drift gently through a bed over the years

Ugni molinae Groundcover Shrubs a soft haze of colorUgni molinae, the Chilean guava, is a small evergreen shrub of the myrtle family, native to the temperate forests of Chile and adjoining southern Argentina. Gardeners of an older generation will know the plant as Myrtus ugni, the name the shrub long circulated under. The genus name Ugni comes straight from ui, the Mapuche word for the plant, while the species honors Juan Ignacio Molina, the Jesuit naturalist who first chronicled the flora of Chile; in