Magic Carpet Plant

This extraordinary combination of colors will brighten and enhance any landscape.

Magic carpet plant.

Magic carpet responds well to pruning and quickly produces new healthy growth. It was selected from third generation seedlings of self pollinated spiraea japonica goldflame. A neat compact mounded shrub with vibrant red new leaves. How to prune magic carpet spirea timing pruning.

It deserves to be more widely grown for the carpet it creates over rolling terrain. 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. The luminous foliage turns rich russet red in the fall. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.

A member of the buckwheat family it comes from the himalaya mountains of asia. Tristam of walberton nursery in west sussex england. Walbuma is a compact and spreading shrub with terminal clusters of small bright pink flowers. Clusters of small pink flowers contrast with bright gold mature foliage that turns rich russet red in fall.

Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. 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. An annual hard pruning in. 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.

Magic carpet plant is an annual see more pictures of annual flowers. Walbuma commonly sold under the trade name magic carpet was bred by david r. Magic carpet plant a nonhardy creeping plant makes a lovely ground cover for sun or shade. 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.

Magic carpet yellow mecardonia mecardonia hybrida sakmec002 plant patent 24 515 sku 30440 tough durable and loaded with bright yellow flowers all season long.