This is an attractive introduction from South Africa.  It is valued for its shimmering fuchsia purple daisies that keep coming all summer. A vigorous spreader, it forms a dense mat of succulent, linear green leaves, in any well-drained soil. Stop watering in midfall to harden for winter. This plant has become a staple in xeric gardens. It can even be planted to spread on top of gravel mulch.

• Height: 2” x Spread: 2’
• Full sun
• Zone 5-7

‘Starburst’ is a succulent, mat-forming, ice plant cultivar that typically grows to only 4” tall but spreads to 20” wide. Foliage is covered with bright lilac-purple flowers (to 1.5” diameter) with white centers from late May to fall. Intensity of the flower color and length of the bloom enhances the ornamental interest of these plants. Succulent fleshy green foliage. Foliage is covered with transparent flakes that somewhat resemble tiny pieces of ice, hence the common name. Plants are evergreen in warm winter climates.

• Height: 2” x Spread: 2’
• Full sun
• Zone 6-10

Solid silvery white star-like daisies bloom all summer on low creeping succulent foliage, excellent rock garden, dry site plant, blooms early summer to early fall.  Requires excellent drainage as do all Delosperma

• Height: 4”-6” x Spread: 2’
• Full sun
• Zone 6-10

This is an outstanding ground cover and rock garden plant, recommended for its vigorous carpeting growth habit. The foliage is succulent and evergreen, with a bright red winter color. Blooming for a month in late spring, the plant covers itself with hundreds of yellow many petaled blooms. Not as heat tolerant as Delosperma cooperi because it comes from colder, higher mountains in South Africa.

• Height: 2” x Spread: 2’
• Full sun – part shade
• Zone 4-7

Brilliant yellow single flowers are plentiful in May and June. Bright green foliage spreads to form solid mats in full sun to bright shade. A great plant for parking walls or medians.  It is easy to grow in the toughest situations.

• Height: 2” x Spread: 2’
• Full sun – part shade
• Zone 4-7

White false indigo is an upright perennial which typically grows in dry woods from Tennessee and North Carolina to Florida. It features small, white, pea-like flowers that are each about a 1/2 “ long.  The flowers appear from a 12”+ dark flower stems extending well above a foliage mound of clover-like, bluish-green leaves in spring.  After flowering, pods develop as green then chalky, jet black bean-like clusters. 

• Height: 2 to 4 feet x Spread: 2 to 2.5 feet
• Full sun to part shade
• Zone 5-8