Dymondia Species, Silver Carpet

This is an attractive plant and grows fast, but in our area it is irresistible to gophers. We wound up removing it from our front yard, w...Read Morehere we used chicken wire as gopher mesh (which doesn’t work) and deal with intermittent intrusions in the back yard. Frankly I would not plant it again.

I will pass along what I what I was told. That to get this to really do well takes nearly as much watering as a lawn,and it still is susc...Read Moreeptible to weeds and hard to get them out without damaging the Dymondia.
I did notice a local gas station's landscaper used it on the various small planting beds. Slowly it died off in patches,seemed to as I had heard,get infested with weedy plants easily.
I think this plant is not a beginners ground cover..not a plant to let the automatic stuff take care of it. You have to care for it.

Central Phoenix -- I first saw this plant in the LA County Arboretum in 2013 and bought a flat of it in a nearby CA nursery. Half of the...Read More flat went to a friend in Ajo, AZ and none of that survived. The other half went into my garden in Phoenix and it survived only in one location, where it has now formed a lovely spreading clump about 2 feet in diameter. The surviving clump gets more water than the other locations -- about every other day, but shallowly to support nearby annuals. It is on a south facing slope and gets almost full sun in winter and partial in summer. Frosts down to 26F have not seemed to affect it. It has bloomed each year, but sparingly.

I have noted this plant growing in Laguna Beach in a space approximately 8'X15' with a few stepping stones, and it seems too be doing wel...Read Morel with the exception of a few plants adjacent an area which is irrigated regularily.

I have just plugged an area at my home in Dana Point which is approx. 6'X20' and have spaced the plugs 12" apart. I feel I'll have to reduce the spacing to 6" due to the probable infiltration of weeds. I am keeping the soil moist to hopefully speed up the spread of the plant. I love the looks of the plant as a groundcover and hope it takes hold. It is not a "cheap" ground cover running from $17.50 for an incomplete flat to $25.00 ea. for two complete flats. (And these 3 were the only ones I could find in the area.)