Ice Plant Garden

They also can be tucked into stone walls.

Ice plant garden. Ice plants prefer full sun but can tolerate some light shade in the garden. Because ice plants are succulents they do not tolerate wet soil though they do well in poor soils. You can grow ice plants by division cuttings and seeds. Where ice plants grows best ice plants are most reliably perennial in the drier less humid climates of the western us.

The ice plant is a low growing mat forming succulent plant which can grow up to into mats up to 165 feet in diameter. Plant hardy ice plant with one of the longest bloomers in the garden coreopsis produces usually sunny yellow daisylike flowers that attract butterflies. Species in the genus delosperma and the family aizoaceae these plants are evergreen succulents with many petaled flowers that resemble daisies. Coreopsis depending on the variety also bears golden yellow pale yellow pink or bicolor flowers.

Delosperma have attractive succulent foliage low spreading stems and shimmering flowers add color and texture to the garden floor. They re perfect as an eye catching groundcover and they also thrive in rock gardens. Delosperma ice plant as they are commonly known are an indispensable component of drought tolerant landscapes. There s a new succulent in town and its name is ice plant.

The leaves are short and finger like and covered in hair like projections that look like frozen droplets of water. In fact wet soil especially during the winter months is likely to kill the plants. Delosperma tend to be annuals in cold wet zone 4 and 5 climates like madison chicago and cincinnati but will be longer lived in the zone 6 8 areas of the appalachian mountains and eastern seaboard. Ice plants thrive in sunlight and poor soil and they make a wonderful alpine or rock garden plant.

The plant produces small blossoms in shades of yellow or pink. Our database entry for ice plant delosperma delmara red is currently incomplete sorry.