Hardy Ice Plant
Delosperma cooperi
A low, succulent groundcover that carpets dry, sunny spots with bright purple-pink daisies from late spring into fall, one of the hardiest ice plants and a champion of heat and drought. It's ideal for rock walls, slopes and containers. Heavy clay or soil that stays wet, above all in winter, kills it.
- Mature size
- 4 in × 2.5 ft
- 0.1 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
- Blooms
- Jun–Sep
Hardy Ice Plant at its mature size
A mature Hardy Ice Plant grows 3 to 12 inches tall and 1 to 4 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, San Marcos Growers.
Through the year
What Hardy Ice Plant looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Winter · Oct–May
The fleshy green mat tinged red, no flowers.
In flower · Jun–Sep
Succulent mat covered in shiny magenta daisies.
Photos
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Growing Hardy Ice Plant
- Grows well in
- The Plains and Mountain West, the desert Southwest, and California.
- Good for
- Groundcover and drought tolerant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- South Africa
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Hardy Ice Plant, that’s about 2.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Hardy Ice Plant in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.