This is a ground cover I have long been attempting to grow in my own yard. I’m sure I have bought at least four of these plants in the past and I am happy, very happy, to report that this fifth attempt is going absolutely gang busters*. This time I have planted this in our sideyard where it is very shady int he winter and gets partial sun in the summer.
Fuchsia procumbens close up with small heart-shaped leaves and a funky flower.
This plant is a low creeping ground cover with small heart-shaped leaves and a super cool and really weird flower. The flower has no petals but has a yellowish green tube with yellow and red and purple sepals. I have read that this plant does produce edible berries but mine has not done so.
I bought this at Annies Annuals, now Curious Flora. I’m not sure if they are currently growing this plant. I was interested to read on the wikipedia page that this is a coastal plant native to New Zealand.
I _think_ this is rooting as it creeps along. You can see in the second picture above that it is happily trying to crawl up the house. One of the reasons I am so hot for this plant is that I am a big believer in “green mulch”. That is, using low plants to cover the mulch in a landscape as another layer of soil moisture retention. This can also help with soil erosion and provide habitat, etc. And really, I just don’t love the look of landscape that ends up being large swaths of bare mulch.