Ice Plant – Delosperma cooperi

Description

A fun plant for the full sun miniature garden. The gray-green, chunky-textured foliage will definitely add a different texture to your miniature garden bed, but this plant is so colorful and interesting, you may want to make it’s own miniature garden!

This hardy, succulent perennial that stays low the ground and flowers throughout the summer. Pretty magenta flowers with white centers are quite striking against the greens of the the garden. 

When it’s not in bloom, the fun-textured of foliage stays semi-evergreen in the winter, but may get a little purple blush to the leaves if the temperatures dip. (Semi-evergreen means it dies back a little in the winter’s dormant months, but not completely.)

In the cooler weather, water this Ice Plant in the mornings. It gets cranky and moldy if it sits wet overnight. 

INDOORS – Needs a LOT of light. Place by a sunny window or under grow lights. If planting in an indoor miniature garden, be sure the companion plants need the same light requirements. Provide good drainage and let the soil dry out in between watering sessions. 

• full sun 
• let dry out between waterings to prevent over watering
• in cooler weather, water in the mornings
• needs good drainage

• 2″ to 4″ high
• Spreads 12″ to 24″ slowly, depending upon your area

• will spread gradually
• magenta flowers all summer
• deadhead to encourage blooming
• cold zones 6 to 9 or hardy to -10F
• heat zones 10 thru 8

• an outdoor plant
• comes in a 4″ pot

Shipping:

PLEASE CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL TO SHIP PLANTS – THEY ARE PERISHABLE.

• We recommend choosing Priority Mail to ship your plant material safely and quickly. PLUS we guarantee the plants, if you use this shipping method.
• While Ground Advantage is a cheaper shipping method, it can take up to 12 days to get your plant order and we can NOT guarantee your plants will arrive in good shape.
• There is no advantage shipping plants by Ground Advantage.
• For large orders that have a lot of miniatures, plants and heavy patio material, you can place one order to ship the plants Priority, and place a second order to ship the non-living items via Ground.  
• We don’t charge any shipping and handling, the postage costs you pay is how much it costs to ship your order. 
• If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email Janit at
   info @ TwoGreenThumbs . com (with no spaces.)
• We can only ship plants to the lower 48 States and Alaska. We are certified by the USDA to ship out of state, since 2001.

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From Irene in PA:

“Hello Janit and Steve! I just received my order today and everything was in great shape. Steve did a fine job at packing, thank you!”