Carissa green carpet

Prefers sun or partial shade, regular water, drought tolerant once established. Fragrant white star-shaped flowers, red plum-like fruit. Glossy green foliage is graced with sweet smelling little white flowers and bright red fruits. The small fruit are edible and taste something like a cranberry, but sweeter. It can also be grown in containers.

USES: Strong flower display and a great accent plant with its swollen stems and contorted shapes. Does well as an accent shrub, hedge, container plant, in focal points, entrance areas, roof gardens and rock gardens. It has fragrant white flowers all year and it attracts birds. Carissa macrocarpa Green Carpet. Emerald Blanket is the dwarf cultivar, and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub.

Evergreen shrub in mild climates. African native with spiny thorns. Thick leathery green oval leaves. Milky, latex sap when plant is cut.

Star shaped tubular white flowers are in small clusters throughout the year. Low water needs once established. Botanical Pronunciation: kuh-RISS-uh mack-roe-KAR-puh. This plant has white, fragrant star-shaped flowers.

This cultivar bears dark green foliage. This tropical, evergreen plant has thick, leathery leaves which are oval to roundish often with a spine at the tip. There are also a few Y-shaped thorns on the stems and branches.

Protect in colder winters. Click here to find out more. Easy-care perennial offers an excellent choice for growing between flagstones or growing as a lawn substitute. It would be useful for a thorny barrier and would also be good for containers. Deep green foliage creates a dense evergreen carpet , becoming bronze in winter.

Tolerates high foot traffic. Well-suited for use as edging, groundcover or in containers. An attractive dwarf evergreen shrub with lustrous, leathery leaves and a compact habit. Small thorns are tucked within the dense foliage - an improvement over thornier varieties. Excellent for foundation or hedge plantings, or for use as a container specimen.

Nov This Pin was discovered by Ronel Mc. A more robust looking plant will be achieved with regular irrigation. Foliage will quickly re- green in spring. Light: Sun and shade, sun best, sparse in shade. Watering: Drought tolerant mesic shrub once established.

Apply deep, monthly irrigations in the summer. A low-growing form of C. Green carpet , is a popular groundcover plant which seldom grows more than knee-height.