I garden in zone 5 & my absolute favorite is Ice plant. It has spread from 4" plants in pink & white now flowing down a rock wall & "puddling" at the bottom, I love it! Another favorite is Blue Star Creeper which I'm using as a lawn replacement since moles wouldn't leave my lawn alone, it's in full bloom right now covered in tiny blue star-like flowers that the pollinators love (not a good choice if you like to walk barefoot). It does tolerate foot traffic though & I love to see the honey bees all over it. Thanks for your content, I think I'll try some creeping thyme to give my "lawn" a little more variety!
Love the video! Always great content 👌 , Great plants and advice, at some point no matter how good you are at something you can always learn something new or different ways to do the same thing. Thank you for sharing 👍 👌 👏 🥰 🌱 🌺
I just discovered coopers ice plant last year and I love it! It blooms like crazy and doesn't leave dead blooms to remove. Needs almost no care and easily survived the winter in zone 6 (mountains of Virginia). You can start new plants by just breaking off a section and putting it in the soil!
9:21 I’ve avoided iceplant because I haven’t liked the mono look of it personally, but this is brilliant! Offsetting with different colored ones 👍 love it
I like your videos very much but I am in zone 10a and I really don't know whether your plants can survive in my area but still I think you put out great content and helps a lot of garderners within your planting zone.
@@plantvibrations true, that's why I keep looking at your videos, looking for the sunny drought tolerant plants. I like how you share all your experiences in great details.
I love all of your videos, and get alot of very useful information from them. I live in Lansdale, PA, so you and I share the same gardening zone, and this fact allows me to use your valuable information in my gardens. I like the 3 plants that you have chosen to review. I had a very nice ice plant growing in a very large pot in my gardens for a few years, and it did very well. I was hoping that it would stay in flower a bit longer, but overall it was a good plant. Thanks for sharing your gardening info. with us here in zone 6B. 🥀
Good morning Devin! Thanks for another great video! Love the ice plant ( I don’t have any in my yard. Yet! ) Can you do a video on ground cover for part sun/shade area? The east side of my house is shade in the morning ( my neighbor’s tree hangs over our fence ), gets the mid day sun and then shade again. I have a very large oak leaf hydrangea in the corner and some type of viburnum along the fence. Grass doesn’t grow well there. Not the best drainage ( we can work on that ). And our dog likes to run from one side of the house to the other ( east to west and back again ) We are on Long Island, zone 7. Suggestions? Thanks! 🌱
Thanks, I wanted to see an update on the ice plants and sedum flats. I guess I am a bit OCD, but I like to only plant one type of sedum in one area. I have that "blue spruce" in a large area of the garden (Iris too), and Angelina in another area, and some 2-row (tiny) sedum in another area. It is more organized, but also none of the sedum over-power other sedum. I guess I just like the look of large patches of plants-- the ice plants too-- I have all pink ones in one area, all yellow in another (etc). Just my aesthetic I guess.
Time is 11:00pm EST Wed 3/14/23 I saw the Creeping Thyme on QVC, found your You Tube Channel, my ? Is this. I have tons on brick rock( was here when we bought)surrounding my house down to the end of my driveway,going down my driveway also is a white sort of ground cover (think it is Phlox)only blooms a few weeks 11in spring, but is growing in this brick. Can I plant the Thyme in amongst the other ground cover and also my soil is somewhat clay and suggestions? Love all the videos & plants, can’t wait!! Thank you!😊
Hi Brenda! I have a video dedicated solely to creeping thyme which goes into a bit more detail! You can absolutely plant it amongst the phlox, they are natural companions and will grow grest together
@@plantvibrations I watched the video on the creeping thyme and it could not be simpler. The land does slope down, but I have a lot of clay soil, is there anything I need to do to the soil before my plants arrive, which is soon, I am in zone 7 in Virginia. Thanks for your help Devin!!!
Thank you! Currently home with a broken arm so nothing but time to consider alternatives for my small weed infested lawn. Have been considering clover, blue star creeper or creeping thyme. any suggestions of which would be easiest or preferable? i'm zone 6a/b Rochester, NY. Any advice would be amazing!
How well do mature ice plants tolerate being occasional walked on? I live in central Florida and there's a decent sized area I want to cover with ice plants.
