Grow your own tart, antioxidant-rich berries with Lingonberry ‘Red Candy’, a compact evergreen shrub that produces bright red edible fruit perfect for jams, sauces, and baking. This cold-hardy plant doubles as a beautiful ground cover with year-round appeal.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Produces bright red edible berries
• Perfect for jams, jellies & baking
• Evergreen foliage for year-round interest
• Compact—great for containers & ground cover
• Extremely cold hardy (Zone 3+)

What You’ll Receive

• Quantity: 1 live plant
• Size: 4.5” nursery pot
• Healthy, well-rooted plant

Plants may not have fruit at time of shipping

Plant Details

• Botanical name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea ‘Red Candy’
• Common name: Lingonberry
• Type: Evergreen subshrub
• Height: 8–12 inches
• Spread: 10–12 inches
• Fruit: Bright red, tart berries

Edible & Culinary Use

• Classic ingredient for lingonberry jam & sauces
• Great for baking, syrups, and preserves
• Tart flavor similar to cranberries

Care Instructions

• Light: Full sun to partial shade
• Water: Moderate; prefers consistently moist soil
• Soil: Acidic, well-draining soil (important)
• Maintenance: Low

Best performance in acidic soil similar to blueberries

Hardiness

• USDA Zones: 3–8
• Extremely cold hardy
• Evergreen in most climates

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.