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Ice Plant is the bright-flowered groundcover so common and loved on the West Coast, but hardly known at all in the east. It’s a succulent, a lot like a short Sedum, but the flowers are the big thing--look at those sizzling hot pink daisies. Everybody loves them, and the plant spreads rapidly with trailing runners.
Why are these plants so popular out west? Visit the Pacific coast, all the way from San Diego up to Seattle, and you'll see these little bright daisies everywhere--edging walks, filling planters, and adding great color under foundation plantings. Why don't we see them more in the east? See the story below, and get some going in your garden! Pick a site with full sun and gritty, sharp-draining soil, and add them to your garden. You'll be amazed at the big show!
The Ice Plant story. Garden expert Todd Boland, a horticulturalist at The College of the North Atlantic, in Newfoundland, explains it all in one of his articles at DavesGarden.com. (Link below.) It seems a famous garden expert named Panayoti Kelaidis of the Denver Botanical Garden is almost single-handedly responsible for introducing these beauties to the US. They are from South Africa, and Mr. Kelaidis traveled there to find new plants suitable for growing in the dry, gritty soils of our western states. The Delospermas he introduced are now great favorites, especially in California. But as Mr. Boland points out, there's no reason eastern and mid-western gardeners cant enjoy Ice Plants. Mr. Boland actually brings D. cooperi, one of the most cold-hardy, through his wet cold winters in Newfoundland, so don't worry about the plants hardiness!
The name? They're called Ice Plants because the succulent leaves produce clear crystals that glint in the sun and sometimes seem to appear as frost.
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Overall rating: 3.6666667 / 5 from 3 reviews.
Review topics: ["plants","blooms"].
"I LOVE these plants. Amazing vibrant blooms, sparkly foliage and great inside and out. I started them in the winter in plug trays so I would have plants for my hanging pots and seasonal containers in the spring. They germinated very well. . . . almost too well! I had to thin them more then I wanted to. They adapt well to a range of growing conditions and didn't seem to mind when I potted them in soil that was a little more clay type then I was hoping for."
"I was pleasantly surprised when first introduced to this plant some years ago when QVC/HSN was selling them. They flourish in my yard until the lawn Maintenace man killed them all when spraying "weed killer". They never came back. Two things I am surprised about with this listing are: one that the here the seeds are marked "annual" and secondly to see them sold as seed."
"The first time I tried to grow these I followed the instructions by scattering on well prepped soil and lightly pressing into the ground, watering as per instructions. Nothing every sprouted. AM customer service kindly sent me another packet with instructions to try starting inside first. I grew them inside and the seeds sprouted as expected. One half of the sprouts I transplanted at week 5 and the other half at week 7. In both cases, upon transplanting outside the sprouts withered within a day and died. Alas, these are not easy to grow!"
