Delosperma 'SUNDELLA TRE COLORI'

Iceplant is a beautiful rock garden perennial from South Africa. You will recognize it by its thick leaves and strictly groundcovering growth which will form colourful carpets smothered by of vibrant, daisy-shaped flowers in the driest, hot, and sunburned places. Its leaves can hold plenty of water like a real succulent so they do not require watering. The foliage is evergreen.

Tre Colori (syn. Carnival) is an iceplant variety from the Sundella series making bright tangerine orange flowers with golden glints like a metallic on a car. The white throat is surrounded by a bright purple-pink eye and a crown of beige anthers. The flowers are large, up to 3 cm across, and completely cover the insolated parts of the plant. They bloom only in sunny weather and close on cloudy days. Sundella iceplants can flower from June until September if the summer is sunny and warm.

In our garden centre we needed to cover a not very nice concrete foundations of a raised flowerbed, and this plant tripled its spread in just one year, creating a breathtaking show of flowers that we decided to plant them all along one side in several colors.

Iceplant loves sunny and dry locations, excess watering could kill this plant. It is best for rockeries with plenty of gritty material, in garden beds and along pavements make sure the soil is sharply drained so that the plant never stands in water. It is supposed to be hardy down to -34 °C (USDA zone 4) under ideal growing conditions. It can be grown in outdoor pots, too, provided good drainage, though we noticed that small pots need occasional careful watering.

Last update 10-06-2022