By eHow Home & Garden Editor
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Euonymus fortunei is a low-growing evergreen shrub - some have white or yellow variegated leaves - that works well as a ground cover in sun. Euonymus fortunei thrives in USDA zones 5 to 9.
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Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Your article on growing Euonymus fortunei was well done, but please advise people that the species is viscously invasive. It does this vegetatively only as a ground cover, but once it climbs up a tree (about 4 feet is all it takes) a hormonal change takes place and it turns into a thick-trunked vine that produces huge amounts of seed, which are in turn spread by birds. It is taking over Central Kentucky, as is Amur River Honeysuckle. You might want to suggest native plant alternatives.