Magic Carpet Plant

The luminous foliage turns rich russet red in the fall.

Magic carpet plant.

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. 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. It was selected from third generation seedlings of self pollinated spiraea japonica goldflame.

How to prune magic carpet spirea timing pruning. Magic carpet yellow mecardonia mecardonia hybrida sakmec002 plant patent 24 515 sku 30440 tough durable and loaded with bright yellow flowers all season long. 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. A member of the buckwheat family it comes from the himalaya mountains of asia.

Tristam of walberton nursery in west sussex england. An annual hard pruning in. The best tool to use for annual hard pruning is small hand pruners so you can assess the health of. Walbuma is a compact and spreading shrub with terminal clusters of small bright pink flowers.

Magic carpet spirea is a flowering shrub of the genus spireae which consists of 80 100 plants mainly shrubs. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. Magic carpet plant is an annual see more pictures of annual flowers. Magic carpet plant a nonhardy creeping plant makes a lovely ground cover for sun or shade.

A neat compact mounded shrub with vibrant red new leaves. 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. Walbuma commonly sold under the trade name magic carpet was bred by david r.

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.