Is Aptenia a Perennial?

Ideal for low-maintenance and water-wise gardens, Aptenia cordifolia 'Variegata' (Baby Sun Rose) is a trailing succulent perennial forming a thick carpet of fleshy, heart-shaped, glossy green leaves adorned with creamy-white edges.

Does Aptenia come back every year?

If kept in the shade, the plant blooms less. Heartleaf Ice plant is winter hardy in USDA hardiness zones 9 through 10. It can survive in slightly cooler settings, but the plant will die back to ground level in freezing temperatures. Keep this attractive succulent indoors as a houseplant year-round.

Is Red Apple Aptenia a perennial?

Aptenia 'Red Apple' (Baby Sun Rose) - A mat-forming evergreen perennial groundcover that forms solid flat mats with stems reaching up to 2 feet long bearing bright green nearly heart-shaped leaves that are 3/4 to 1 inch long and covered in very fine bumps.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

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