'Fire Spinner' Delosperma cooperi (Ice Plant)

Cultivar Notes -

Fire Spinner

For glamorous color where it’s hot, sunny, and dry, we suggest this exceptional Denver Botanic Garden introduction. Nickel-sized blossoms are apricot to bright orange with a ring of hot pink to magenta color surrounding the white eye. They are produced prolifically, blanketing the foliage from late spring through early summer and then often reblooming sporadically throughout the summer months. A vigorous, evergreen carpet.

FIRE SPINNER® is a weed suppressing groundcover that typically spreads 18-24” wide in two years. Its succulent, apple green foliage is evergreen and takes on bronze tones in winter.

Like all Delospermas, this one is also highly heat and drought tolerant, making it a good choice for waterwise landscapes. It thrives in rock gardens, on slopes, in containers, and in the landscape.

Genus Notes -

Delosperma

Native to the hot, dry climate of South Africa, these mat-forming succulents endure dry soil and drought, although they struggle in heavy clay and extreme humidity. Superb in the rock garden or tumbling over a stone wall.

Tips from the pros: Wetness in the winter can cause die-back. Thrives in a variety of sites, but grows best in full sun with moderate moisture in dry summers. Does not like bark mulch - consider gravel.

Ice Plant ‘Fire Spinner’Delosperma cooperi

Ice Plant ‘Fire Spinner’
Delosperma cooperi