Description
Brown/black foliage that resembles feathered ferns. Brown button flowers.
This is a great ground cover plant with its soft feathered foliage that creeps constantly in moist free draining soils. Other more stable plants will continue to grow through this mat of foliage due to roots only going down to 5-10cm. Our best use of this plant is for the base of shrubs in containers or ground.
Flowering: Spring
Hardiness: Hardy
Height: 2cm
Spread: 40cm+
Common Name:
Life Cycle: perennial
Family: Asteraceae
Foliage: elliptic / lacerate
Basic Colour: ( black )
Flower Colour: green
Natural Flowering: June
Winter Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Height with Flowers: 2-4cm
Soil Requirements: average / moist / well-drained
Soil ph: acidic / alkaline / neutral
Location: container / cottage garden / border / rock garden / crevice garden
Usage: ornamental / semi shade / ground cover / matforming
Pruning: not required
Tolerates: cracks in paving
Origin: New Zealand (cultivar)
Sophie K. (verified owner) –
Lovely plant, duly potted on arrival and thriving in the container. Looks great with Hellebores and Bergenia.
Mark (verified owner) –
The product page really didn’t prepare me for how dinky this plant was going to be. The leaves are around 1.5-2cm in length and just under 1cm in width. It is a lovely solid mat of a plant.
Mark (verified owner) –
These are lovely delicate looking plants and the blend of colors makes them quite interesting. They do seem to be quite picky about where they want to be I’ve had to move them several times as they didn’t like full sun, but they also didn’t like too much shade and they didn’t like any heavy foot traffic (birds and hedgehogs, not actual human foot traffic) so aren’t really working the way I wanted them. They seem quite happy now they are in bright shade where nothing stands on them, although so far one is thriving, the other only has a handful of leaves left on it, but I’m hoping it will perk up no i know where they want to be.
Lynne Hope (verified owner) –