Plant in full sun to part shade in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally to very little. Very hardy and useful in areas down to USDA Zone 5 (-20°F!). It is a great weed suppressing low water requiring groundcover and though some report it shy to bloom, once established, it has put on a pretty good show for us and the colors are a knockout!

Delosperma Fire Spinner is an undescribed species or natural hybrid discovered by Panayoti Kelaidis of the Denver Botanic Garden growing at an elevation above 6,000 feet near Tarkastad in the semi-desert Karoo region in East Cape, South Africa. It is a 2012 introduction by Plant Select, the collaboration of Colorado State University, Denver Botanic Gardens and professional horticulturists that we are in partnership with. We thank Panayoti Kelaidis for sharing this plant with us after speaking about it in his talk to the Cactus and Succulent Society of America convention at Pitzer College in Claremont, California in 2015. It seemed a bit shy to bloom in our climate and we only sold this plant for a couple years. 

The information displayed on this page about Delosperma Fire Spinner ['P001S'] is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.