Zauschneria garettii Orange Carpet®

Perennials & Ground Covers
Zauschneria garettii Orange Carpet®

Blooming Time

July
August
September

Exposure

True
Full Sun
True
Light Shade

A super-hardy perennial, Zauschneria is something quite unique, almost tropical looking, and grows in low mats of soft, fine textured grey-green leaves. Worth using just for foliage, Orange Carpet® comes ablaze during summertime with countless long-lived red-orange trumpet-shaped flowers that draw hummingbirds and other pollinators. Orange Carpet® is a plant for well drained soils and excels along the top of retaining walls, on slopes, in rock gardens and containers… anyplace where there is no standing water.

Details

Hardiness Zone:

4

Blossom Color:

Orange, Copper, Gold

Growth Habit:

Sprawling

Max Height:

6"

Texture:

Fine Texture

Recommended Spacing:

15" to 1½'

We sell this plant in these containers:

#1 Pot
#1 Pot

Special Characteristics

True
Seasonal Effect
True
Moderate Area
True
Drought Tolerant
True
Hummingbird
True
Butterflies
True
Bees
True
Small Area
True
Deer Resistant
True
Sandy Soil Tolerant

Features

Unique and tropical in appearance, trumpet-shaped red-orange flowers cover low growing mats of soft, grey green foliage in the summer.

Landscape Value

Excels along the top of retaining walls, on slopes, in rock gardens and containers... anyplace there is no standing water.

Care

Watering:

Orange Carpet® Hummingbird Trumpet is very drought tolerant and typically only needs watering during the hottest days of summer.

Fertilizing:

Orange Carpet® Hummingbird Trumpet is a moderate feeder, benefiting from a couple of annual applications of slow release fertilizer. A spring application of a 3-1-2 ratio (such as a 15-5-10) can be applied at a rate of about 10 pounds per 1000 square feet, and during early fall, an application of a 2-1-2 ratio (such as a 10-5-10) can be applied to encourage root development and cold hardiness.

Pruning:

Orange Carpet® Hummingbird Trumpet should be enjoyed all winter long, then, during early April before it begins to grow again, it should be pruned or mowed back to ground level.

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