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Originally Posted by pmurphy
Nice find.
I actually had this growing wild in some places in my yard so I moved some of it to my little "native" garden with the other native red huckleberry -vaccinium parvifolium; which is almost impossible to dig up and transplant because it usually grows on rotting logs and seems to need this in order to survive (I buried a chunk of rotten log under it and that seems to work)
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Red Huckleberry is pretty tempting. I've seen the Evergreen Huckleberry growing wild in coastal areas as far south as Big Sur - that's why I was willing to try it here years ago. I only brought one plant to my new home and bought the other 5 so I could plant out a bed of them. I've only spotted Red Huckleberry in B.C. and Washington State in the Quinault area. Your practice of the rotting log is probably the only tractable way to get the special form of mycorrhizae that some Vacciniums, Rhododendrons, etc. thrive on. It is not available from standard sources, comes in a pint or quart size bottle which is only good for 18 hours after opening, and it's very pricey.