Warley Rose Stone Cress
Aethionema armenum 'Warley Rose'
Plant Height: 4 inches
Flower Height: 6 inches
Spread: 24 inches
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Hardiness Zone: 4
Description:
A charming semi-evergreen to evergreen groundcover plant with volumes of pink blooms starting in spring and continuing into the summer; lovely along dappled borders
Ornamental Features
Warley Rose Stone Cress is blanketed in stunning clusters of pink star-shaped flowers rising above the foliage from mid spring to mid summer. Its glossy narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the year.
Landscape Attributes
Warley Rose Stone Cress is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a more or less rounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.
This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and usually looks its best without pruning, although it will tolerate pruning. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Warley Rose Stone Cress is recommended for the following landscape applications;
Planting & Growing
Warley Rose Stone Cress will grow to be only 4 inches tall at maturity extending to 6 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial, this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.
This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Warley Rose Stone Cress is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.