Ice plants, belonging to the Delosperma and Lampranthus genera, are perennial plants known for their bright and colorful flowers. This name comes from the tiny hairs on their leaves and stems, giving ...

If you live in California, beds of ice plant are so common you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a native species. In reality, ice plant (Carpobrutus edulis), a species widely grown throughout the state ...

Cooper's hardy ice plant (Delosperma cooperi) is a bright, drought-tolerant succulent often used as a ground cover for lawns, much to the delight of gardeners and pollinators. While its care needs are ...

With its dainty flowers in bright hues of pink, red, orange, purple, lavender, yellow, or white and lush greenery, the trailing ice plant (Delosperma) is one ground cover you should plant in late ...

With temperatures heating up, gardeners are looking for plants that can take the heat. With a name like Ice Plant, you may think it likes it cold, but you would be wrong. Ice plant is the common name ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Ice plant has taken over large sections of ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. The restoration project for Lampton Cliffs ...

Plant names have always been fascinating to me for a number of reasons. When I first started studying them, it always seemed easier for me to remember the more outlandish botanical names than the ...

The recent heat wave reminded me to be grateful for many things, not the least being the availability of ice. For our ancestors, ice made possible everything from ice cream to mint juleps served in ...