Magic Carpet Plant

With a low spreading habit to about 3 feet tall and 5 or more feet wide october magic carpet camellia is highly useful in mass or group plantings or to create a colorful underplanting for medium size trees such as dogwoods redbuds and upright tall japanese maples.

Magic carpet plant.

Magic carpet plant is an annual see more pictures of annual flowers. A member of the buckwheat family it comes from the himalaya mountains of asia. Bursting out in color spiraea japonica magic carpet walbuma japanese spirea is a low growing deciduous shrub with brilliant red leaves in spring maturing to golden yellow as the summer progresses. An annual hard pruning in.

This extraordinary combination of colors will brighten and enhance any landscape. It deserves to be more widely grown for the carpet it creates over rolling terrain. The luminous foliage turns rich russet red in the fall. Tristam of walberton nursery in west sussex england.

The best tool to use for annual hard pruning is small hand pruners so you can assess the health of. A neat compact mounded shrub with vibrant red new leaves. Magic carpet plant a nonhardy creeping plant makes a lovely ground cover for sun or shade. Magic carpet spirea is a flowering shrub of the genus spireae which consists of 80 100 plants mainly shrubs.

Primarily used as a ground cover thymus serpyllum magic carpet creeping thyme is a dwarf aromatic sub shrub forming a tight cushion of tiny rounded dark green leaves. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. It was selected from third generation seedlings of self pollinated spiraea japonica goldflame. It is a variety of spirea japonica the species native to japan and china thought this variety sometimes called walbuma spirea is the selection made in england.

How to prune magic carpet spirea timing pruning. Clusters of small pink flowers contrast with bright gold mature foliage that turns rich russet red in fall. Magic carpet responds well to pruning and quickly produces new healthy growth. Mecardonia a new garden annual caught my attention this season a plant from sakata seed company called mecardonia magic carpet yellow this little trailing plant only grows about 4 inches tall but has flowered non stop from early spring when it was planted and continues to bloom during the cool nights of mid october.

Walbuma is a compact and spreading shrub with terminal clusters of small bright pink flowers.