Dymondia Margaretae Silver Carpet Seeds

Plant silver carpet as a groundcover in hot dry areas.

Dymondia margaretae silver carpet seeds.

Dymondia margaretae is an excellent ground cover plant originally from south africa. It tolerates heat and drought deer and rabbits. 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. In a rare case where both the genus and species of a plant is named for the same person this plant was named for noted south african horticulturalist margaret elizabeth dryden dymond 1909 1952.

The dymondia margaretae plant makes a great plant for using between paving slabs. Silver carpet is an easy care heat loving low water groundcover. The soil temperature needs to be 70f for good germination. 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.

A member of the daisy family with attractive foliage and yellow daisy like flowers this is perhaps the toughest of the genus. Dichondra ground cover seed can be directly started in a prepared seedbed that is free of weeds. This dichondra will grow as an annual in frost heavy zones. The dichondra seeds need to stay moist but not saturated until germination.

Gardener s hq guide to growing silver carpet. It is originally native to south africa. 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. Once established water one time per week.

I suggest you look at other options such as my all time favorite thyme. Full sun plants thrive in 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. 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. Water plants often the first year.

As far as i know dymondia also known as silver carpet is not sold as seed.