Dichondra Silver Falls 15cm

Dichondra ‘Silver Falls’ is a garden cultivar which is loved for its velvety-soft silver leaves, and glistening stems that will cascade up to 1.2m long, resembling a waterfall of tiny silver coins.

Dichondra 'Emerald Falls' is another garden cultivar with brilliant emerald green leaves, and a more rounded shape than 'Silver Falls', producing a wider but shorter plant.

This perennial is evergreen in warm climates, is easy to grow, and a very vigorous and widely spreading plant. When used as a groundcover, its creeping stems root wherever they come into contact with the ground. This enables the plant to spread quickly and form a lush, dense mat that not only looks great but blocks out weeds. It branches well without pinching and will thrive with little or no feeding. However to achieve lush coverage, and especially if you are growing in containers, you should feed with a liquid fertiliser monthly in spring and summer.

Dichondra is only hardy to moderate frost, and in very cold regions it is often grown as a summer annual. In moderately cold areas it can become semi to fully deciduous in winter, springing up again once the weather warms up.

It thrives in full sun but tolerates semi-shade, however, in too much shade it may become leggy and the silver will not be as brilliant. It grows well in sandy loam soils, with good drainage. Soil drainage is particularly important if plants are grown as a ground cover. It is heat and drought tolerant, and will recover quickly if wilted, but try to water moderately during dry spells to prevent wilting. Little to no pruning is needed except for removing faded leaves as necessary.