Jacksonville, FL (Zone 9a) | March 2016 | positive
This is a great groundcover in my zone 9a garden in Jacksonville, Florida. It produces bright yellow flowers in March when there are few ...Read Moreyellow flowers in the garden. In the shade of a live oak tree with no irrigation, it competes well with weeds but does not spread too rapidly.
What a delightful spring bloomer for the shade. The plants have evergreen leaves, almost heart shaped. They are not bothered by heavy s...Read Morehade as the one patch I have was shaded by a tricyrtis all summer and is still there after I cut the tricyrtis down for the fall. I don't think they spread as rapidly by seed as some have written. Mine is very obedient so far and only spreads mildly by seed, I'd actually like for it to spread a little more than it does. This spring I took all the seed heads and dispersed them about the garden. Hopefully next spring they will grow and take off. Lovely yellow flowers held about a foot above the foliage in the spring. They stay nice for a week or two. This is definitely a plant that does not need any extra care.
It's quite attractive with leaves that were evergreen in my Zone 6 shady plot. It was too successful; after a year, I ripped it out befo...Read Morere it took over the whole bed. Transplanted it to a place where it couldn't spread so that I could enjoy its beauty safely.
Previous description from 2012; this one from 2021. It's turned out to be a solution to an old problem: what to cover the ground with after Mertensia and May Apple have done their seasonal die-back exposing bare ground? The golden ragwort has turned out to be a decent ground cover that survives the passing of those spring ephemerals. So now I don't have a big patch of unsightly bare ground for the remainder of the season.
WE WOULD NOT GROW THIS PLANT IN OUR GARDEN. IT IS VERY INVASIVE, OUR LOCAL COUNCIL LAST SUMMER HAD SQUADS OF EMPLOYEES UPROOTING THIS PLA...Read MoreNT, WHICH GROWS WILD ON THE SEAFRONT AND SAND DUNE AREA . I BELIEVE THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT THE PLANT IS DEADLY POISONOUS TO HORSES WHEN IT IS IN THE WILT STAGE.
I planted this in my garden last summer. It was one of the first plants to wake up this spring. It is blooming this week and has alot o...Read Moref little babies coming up. I love the foliage.
Wonderful evergreen groundcover with low-growing, large (2-3 inches) round dark green leaves. Spreads quickly in my wet solid clay soil....Read More Shallow roots make it easy to dig out clumps and transplant (or to keep in control). Yellow daisy flowers are a bit spindly, but one of the earliest spring flowers in my garden (before the daffodils even). This is a great groundcover for sun.
Hardy plants that take no maintenance other than deadheading to prevent volunteer seedlings. Best use is in naturalized areas with poor ...Read Moredry soil and full sun, otherwise it tends to take over. Senecio obovatus has similar blooms, but produces an ovate leaf instead of the round/heart shape that S. aureus has.
This is a great groundcover in my zone 9a garden in Jacksonville, Florida. It produces bright yellow flowers in March when there are few ...Read More
What a delightful spring bloomer for the shade. The plants have evergreen leaves, almost heart shaped. They are not bothered by heavy s...Read More
It's quite attractive with leaves that were evergreen in my Zone 6 shady plot. It was too successful; after a year, I ripped it out befo...Read More
Seen and photographed in the Hitchcock Woods, Aiken, SC
WE WOULD NOT GROW THIS PLANT IN OUR GARDEN. IT IS VERY INVASIVE, OUR LOCAL COUNCIL LAST SUMMER HAD SQUADS OF EMPLOYEES UPROOTING THIS PLA...Read More
I planted this in my garden last summer. It was one of the first plants to wake up this spring. It is blooming this week and has alot o...Read More
Wonderful evergreen groundcover with low-growing, large (2-3 inches) round dark green leaves. Spreads quickly in my wet solid clay soil....Read More
Hardy plants that take no maintenance other than deadheading to prevent volunteer seedlings. Best use is in naturalized areas with poor ...Read More