[medit-plants] Re: unknown groundcover

Horace -

Thanks for sharing this!  I'd never seen Sparaxis growing in this way!!!

After seeing your photo, I drove past a lawn here in Berkeley sprinkled with white flowers which I assumed were Bellis perennis daisies, but I stopped and took a closer look and found that they were a white Sparaxis hybrid!  I will not be so complacent in my assumptions in future.


On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 3:51 PM, RG Turner <r*@gmail.com> wrote:
The bright flowers are actually Sparaxis, one of the many bulbs from South Africa. Not really a ground cover. The foliage will die to the ground about the time the flowers fade. Wonderful addition to a lawn, however. The bulbs multiply slowly, so that it may seem they are carpeting the ground when in flower.

RG Turner
r*@gmail.com

On Apr 7, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Hortus Confusus wrote:

Hello people,
I always get excited when I see a plant Ivenever seen before! My wife and I saw this groundcover in a lawn and would like to add it to our garden. Anyone know what it is?

Horace
(a.k.a. hortus confusus)
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