Delosperma Hardy Hybrid

€5,90

Delosperma Hardy Hybrid

Name: Delosperma Hardy Hybrid – Couvre Sol aux fleurs colorées
Brand: Delosperma
SKU: pda135
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

€5,90

Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

Delosperma Hardy Hybrid is a color-changing ground cover that has been especially developed to withstand cold temperatures, snow, fire and drought.

The foliage is -like on pendulous stems, shifting colors throughout the seasons.

The flowers are astounding - neon colors ranging from yellow through bright pink to vermillion.

In flower beds, the nectar-rich flowers are a real treat for bees and great to cover up bare areas or drape around a rock garden.

Flowering	June, July, August, September
Flower Color	Yellow, Pink, White
Exposure	Full Sun
Frost Tolerance	-20°C to -25°C
Size	Outdoors
Soil	Dry

pda135

€5,90

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🪴9x9 cm

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🌱 Grown in our nursery

Perfect for dry, water-wise gardens, this low-maintenance plant thrives in well-drained, poor soils, making it ideal for rock gardens, slopes, and borders.
Can grow very quickly if it likes its environment > observe carefully to prevent a full scale invasion

Floral Morphology

The flowers of Delosperma lineare are solitary or borne near the tips of the shoots.

They open only in bright sunlight and close at night or on dull days.

Each bloom is radially symmetrical, composed of a small calyx of five sepals surrounding a radiant halo of petaloid staminodes.

These colorful, strap-shaped filaments—often magenta, violet, orange, yellow, or white—are modified sterile stamens rather than true petals > an optimization in and of itself one might add.

Delosperma Hardy Hybrid has many different colored flowers.

At the center stands a tuft of fertile stamens encircling the inferior ovary.

When pollination succeeds, the ovary develops into a dry capsule that demonstrates one of the genus’s most remarkable traits: hygrochasy.

What is hygrochasy?

The opening of a fruit (or flower) in reaction to the presence of rain.

This means that the capsule carrying the seeds ONLY opens when it is moistened by the rain - closing again as it dries.

This mechanism ensures that seeds are dispersed precisely when conditions favor germination.

In-sane.

Ecology

Pollination is usually carried out by bees, flies, and butterflies attracted by the brilliant colors and reflective sheen of the flowers rather than by fragrance.

In their native habitats, Delospermas occupy niches between rocks and in thin soils where water drains rapidly.

Their compact roots and succulent leaves make them perfectly suited to such conditions, and these same adaptations have made them popular garden plants in regions with hot summers and cold winters.

Learn more about gardening with Delosperma:

FR: Le Pourpier Vivace
ENG: Delosperma: A Growing Guide for Ice Plant
ENG: How To Grow and Care For Cold Hardy Ice Plant

he Hardy Hybrid is an ice plant cultivar and was developed to withstand cold temperatures, snow, fire and drought.

How many can say as much about themselves?

The name Delosperma, meaning “visible seed” in Greek, refers to the transparent membranes of its fruit capsules through which the seeds can be seen.

Early European botanists were fascinated by the plants’ glistening leaves, believing that the crystals might be salt or even frozen dew, hence the enduring common name “ice plant.”

Modern botanists, however, value Delosperma for different reasons: the mechanical elegance of its seed capsules, which move with changes in humidity without any living tissue, offering insights into natural materials engineering.

Delosperma is a genus of succulent perennials belonging to the Aizoaceae, the ice plant family.

Native to southern and eastern Africa, these plants thrive in arid and semi-arid landscapes, from the rocky slopes of South Africa’s Cape provinces to the high mountains of Lesotho and Ethiopia.

They form low, spreading mats or cushions, rooting along the stems as they creep across the ground.

The leaves are opposite, fleshy, and usually cylindrical or triangular in cross-section.

Under sunlight their surfaces glisten because of epidermal bladder cells filled with water; these translucent cells scatter light and give the plants their characteristic icy sparkle while serving as miniature reservoirs that reduce water loss and leaf temperature.

I've taken some nice photos of Delosperma cooperi where you can really see the bladder cells twinkle and sparkle: check it out here!