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"It's great in a pot or if you want to cover an area. It spreads beautifully"
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Overall rating: 4.714286 / 5 from 7 reviews.
Review topics: ["plants","growing"].
"It's great in a pot or if you want to cover an area. It spreads beautifully"
"Easy to grow"
"It arrived rather small I thought. But after about 6 weeks in the ground, it was happy to be here and boy did it take off. It is just beautiful."
"Doing well"
"I bought this plant last year on April 1st. Initial plant was small, kinda scraggly, but alive (also well packaged as is everything I get from AM). The first year it thrived and spread very well as a ground cover in my raised garden bed. Now covers about one square foot of area. There were no blooms the first year, which was a bummer, but I knew if it lived it would be lovely in the future. I was pleasantly surprised at how it overwintered (this and my rosemary plant were the only things that remained a pretty green over winter) and it requires literally NO regular care. I've even pulled up a few strands and replanted them haphazardly in other planters and those are thriving as well! The best news is, this year I have my first gorgeous blooms!! :) The only con I can think of for this plant is that I didn't really think ahead when I planted it -- I wish I had picked a better place and I think that now it's too big/spread out to safely pull it up and move it. Regardless, I really love it :)"
"I've always wanted to grow this, but never lived where it would do well. Now I'm in the high desert and these are LOVELY! and stand up to dogs trampling on them. I ordered three plants, and one didn't make it. I bought a similar one to replace it at our local garden store and now my smaller mailed plants from American Meadows are out-producing the nursery plant which was larger to begin with. I really love this plant. It loves my sandy soil and a bit of watering every day."
"Obviously bought the plant called "Fire Spinner" for its unique flower coloring. However, the plant spread to five times it's size and is very green and lush. But since planting them in May 2018 and now late September 2018 not a single bud or bloom all summer long. Deciding whether to keep it and hope again for next year."
Fire Spinner ignites the summer garden with hot, neon colors on drought-resistant plants.
Ice Plant is the bright-flowered groundcover so common and loved on the West Coast, but hardly known at all in the east. Its 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. 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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