WELCOME - This blog is brought to you by Green Shoots (Gardening & Horticulture) which provides garden design, maintenance and planting services in Manchester and surrounds. All gardening is undertaken by an experienced gardener and plantsman.

Friday, 1 July 2011

Good plant #108 - Mesembryanthemum


This low growing tender annual is ideal for a very hot dry sunny site. It works very well in pots and is a good centre piece for an outdoor eating table. Its leathery foliage turns from green to red from late spring through summer.

They are very easy to grow from seed and are cheap to buy as small plants. The flowers are only open in the sunlight.

They prefer well-drained and impoverished soil and must have a sunny site.

For more good plants and gardening tips click here:http://greenshootsgardeningandhorticulture.blogspot.com/ and check out the archive at the bottom of the page.

No comments:

Post a Comment