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Mesembryanthemums

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Our range of ice plants brings together small succulent groundcover plants, such as Aptenia cordifolia, the heart-leaf ice plant, widely used in planters and sunny borders. Very similar to delospermas, they offer small daisy-like flowers and fleshy foliage. These South African Aizoaceae form highly floriferous carpets or cascades that spill over walls and containers. They fill rockeries and slopes in dry and coastal gardens, where their flowering can be observed from spring to autumn.

Aptenia cordifolia 'Variegata' offers numerous carmine-pink flowers on variegated foliage; it is best grown in pots or as an annual to decorate hanging baskets and other containers. Lampranthus aurantiacus ‘Pink Flowers’, or the orange ice plant with pink flowers, forms a taller clump covered in a multitude of small pink daisies. More unusual, the icy plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), also known as coarse purslane, is an annual vegetable plant from which the crunchy young leaves with a slightly tangy, iodised flavour are harvested. Also discover Ruschia prostrata (Prostrate Antimima), a very low-growing plant that turns red in the sun, with its long pale pink flowering from spring to early summer.

Generally, ice plants appreciate warm, very sunny positions, sandy or stony, rather poor, perfectly drained soils, and tolerate summer drought well. Stagnant moisture in winter, combined with frost, are the main causes of decline. Most are slightly hardy perennials, grown in the ground in coastal areas, or in containers to be overwintered under cover in colder regions.
All our advice in "Delosperma, perennial purslane: planting and growing"



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