Garden strawberry
Fragaria × ananassa
- Size
- 0.3 m tall, 0.4 m across
- Light
- Full sun, part sun
- Hardy to
- -25 degrees
- Flowers
- May to June
- Ground cover
- Edging a bed or a path
- In a pot
- Edible fruit
- Covers the ground
Safety
Nothing on our safety list for this plant.
Reviewed and approved for Poland by a qualified gardener with thirty years of practice, 22 September 2026.
What it needs, what it becomes
- Type
- Fruit and herbs
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Size when mature
- 0.3 m tall, 0.4 m across
- Light
- Full sun, part sun
- Moisture
- Medium, moist
- Soil
- loam, sand
- Soil pH
- 5.5 to 7
- Hardy to
- -25 degrees
- Flowers
- May to June
- For pollinators
- Good
- Water
- Medium water
- Upkeep
- Some
- Growth
- Fast
- In Europe
- Introduced
- Spreading risk
- None known
- If eaten
- People: Not toxic · Dogs: Not toxic · Cats: Not toxic
- Worth knowing
- Edible
Design a garden with this plant
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Lists it is on
- Plants for bees and butterflies60 plantsForage from early spring to late autumn, with each plant's flowering months stated.
- Ground cover plants17 plantsInstead of weeding: a close mat that shuts the ground and keeps weeds out.
- Plants safe with children and pets39 plantsNothing toxic and nothing thorny: the list a garden with a toddler or a dog starts from.
- Plants for pots8 plantsFor a terrace or a balcony, where the soil ends at the wall of the pot and water goes twice as fast.
