Dymondia Margaretae Silver Carpet Seeds

Once established water one time per week.

Dymondia margaretae silver carpet seeds.

The reason for only using plugs or small plants is that you want the planting to look uniform which it won t with seed grown plants. Water plants often the first year. Full sun plants thrive in 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. Dymondia margaretae is an excellent ground cover plant originally from south africa.

The dichondra seeds need to stay moist but not saturated until germination. Dichondra ground cover seed can be directly started in a prepared seedbed that is free of weeds. Plant silver carpet as a groundcover in hot dry areas. A member of the daisy family with attractive foliage and yellow daisy like flowers this is perhaps the toughest of the genus.

Gardener s hq guide to growing silver carpet. It is very tough and has the nickname living cement. Silver carpet is an easy care heat loving low water groundcover. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about dymondia species silver carpet dymondia margaretae supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave s garden.

It is originally native to south africa. The soil temperature needs to be 70f for good germination. I suggest you look at other options such as my all time favorite thyme. Dymondia dymondia margaretae also known as silver carpet is worth considering if you live in a warm climate using dymondia as a grass substitute is suitable in usda plant hardiness zones 9b through 11.

These carpet forming plants are very drought tolerant once established and make a great plant to grow in sandy areas. Dymondia margaretae is endemic to the bredasdorp district of the western cape of south africa and is monotypic being the only species in this genus. It tolerates heat and drought deer and rabbits. The dymondia margaretae plant makes a great plant for using between paving slabs.

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